yeah, you guys are probably right on this. I was just over stating. :) Yi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yi Wen wrote: > > I totally agree with you on this. I have a feeling a lot of people kind of >> use cucumber as a sexy way for doing waterfall. >> > > "Storytests" are very well represented in the Agile development community > in general. Cucumber is a (slam-dunk) reinterpretation of Ward Cunningham's > FIT concept. > > (Naturally, born of Java, FIT had no direct translation to Ruby, and that's > probably a good thing!) > > It's only waterfall if your product-owner writes or commissions _thousands_ > of story tests before doing _any_ of them. > > I heavily suspect that the author of a cucumber "feature" can hardly wait > to see it pass, and I suspect they will refrain from diverting energy to > writing another one. That is the heart of Agile - the feedback loop. > > So what's the maximum number of cucumber features that anyone has ever seen > on-deck but not yet passing? That's a bad metric, exactly like excess > inventory in a warehouse. > > -- > Phlip > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users >
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