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by Bryan Liles.
Original Post: TATFT -- I feel a revolution coming on
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Last week, I was given a little camera time, so I got some things off of my chest.
TATFT
This is a hard thing to do. I’ll be the first person to admit it. Another thing that I admit, is that I do TEST all the time.
Spikin’ is natural, and a good thing, but after you are done, get rid of all that spikey code and TDD the new feature in. This is hard thing for ALL of us to grasp, because it never makes sense at the time.
One thing of note that I would like to share is that sometimes you’ll come to a point where you can’t TDD. At that point, I’ll offer some advice… you most likely don’t understand the problem as well as you think you do. What you may need to do is try it again from a different angle or maybe you need to think larger and stop scoping so small.
Whatever you do, make sure you are testing, because if you aren’t, all you are doing is making it harder for yourself when you revisit the code, and making it even harder for the next developer who will inevitably have to maintain what you just wrote.
Peace, Hair Grease and TATFT
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