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Original Post: Re: Coding inside the debugger
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There's an interesting thread in comp.lang.smalltalk on the practice of coding inside the debugger. If you read a few messages in, you'll see that there's a complete misunderstanding of how Smalltalkers are able to work - the thought process of those advocating unit tests over everything fail to grasp one simple thing - in Smalltalk, when a unit test fails - you are able to jump directly into the debugger to see why it failed. You can then fix the problem (with all the in memory objects available) - and try the test again. That's the essence of TDD in Smalltalk. It's just too bad that developers using other languages have such sub-optimal choices....
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