On May 3, 2008, at 11:07 AM, John D. Hume wrote:
Even when working test/spec-first, when I'm pairing with someone who
isn't experienced working that way, I find myself constantly saying
"I'm pretty sure we don't need that yet." (I've just written the
spec my pair is trying to get passing, so I know how little code we
need.) If it happens then, it will certainly happen when that same
developer is uncommenting code already written.
Out of curiosity, Ashley, what size team are you working with where
you don't see this problem?
-hume.
I remember a joke that Aslak mentioned a while back ago on this list:
He had a friend (or co-worker) who wanted to write a tool which would
delete every line of code which didn't get covered with rcov. I found
that remark funny because Aslak didn't know if his co-worker was
joking or not.
Now that I think about it more, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to
have such a tool like this, even if it was just for didactic purposes.
Scott
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Ashley Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
On 2 May 2008, at 06:13, Tero Tilus wrote:
I can well imagine how you may end up not getting all the advantages
of BDD thru uncommenting process when you compare to clean BDD. But
uncommenting is definitely better than writing spec on top of existing
code, which in turn is _way_ better than not writing spec at all.
Perhaps "uncommenting" is a bad description. What I do is write
specs for the behaviour I want, and see what bits of the code (if
any) do that. (Which will obviously be pretty similar to the what
it does anyway.) What I *don't* do is pick a line of code and write
a spec for it so I can uncomment it. I guess that's how you would
run into trouble.
Ashley
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