On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Matt Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Aslak made a good point earlier this thread with "don't write specs
>> just cuz," but perhaps this fact is sufficient "cuz" to motivate.
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> There's something else here (nothing to do with testing rails controllers,
> but testing in general) about the psychological blockage to working up the
> testing infrastructure in order to test something you've never tested
> before. It's so easy and tempting to say 'sod it' and dive into code & fix
> when you can't muster the mental energy to work out how to make something
> testable. By sticking to the TDD mindset in quite an uncharacteristically
> dogmatic way, unless I'm doing a throwaway spike, I find I usually get just
> enough discipline to get me through that blockage, and out into the bright
> sunshine of the TDD superhighway.

Gotta trademark that puppy.

:)
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