James Byrne wrote: [...] > > The real test for yourself is the truthful answer to the question: Is > what I am doing HARD? If the answer is no then you are missing > something important (or are a savant).
I'm going to disagree *very* strongly with you here. TDD certainly takes discipline, and that may be hard at first. But once you do a little and pick up the pattern, it is exhilaratingly easy, at least for me. So, I would say to ask yourself: is what I am doing HARD? If the answer is yes, you have missed something. Learn the missing piece. Keep going until it becomes easy. If it is hard, you are working too hard and you need to stop and sharpen your saw. TDD and BDD is HARD. It is > VERY HARD. Because you have to cast your every design intent as a > programatically testable manifestation. Indeed. > That means you have to think > very carefully about precisely what you NEED to accomplish and HOW to > accomplish it, No! Your tests should generally test the result, not the implementation. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
