Kevin,
My experience supports that. I learned to be a much better OO designer by practicing TDD. It gave me the freedom to correct the design flaws I'd made, and see how much better coding worked after doing so.
- George
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On 7/4/23 10:05 AM, Kevin Rutherford wrote:
JB,
I'm quite surprised by your second claim, that "One can learn design
skill by practising TDD".
Can you support that?
K
On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 2:43?PM J. B. Rainsberger <me@...> wrote:
I am surprised to encounter so many people who claim something like this:
"You must understand how to design before you can practise TDD well."
I say the following in response:
- Practising TDD "poorly" still helps many programmers
- One can learn design skill by practising TDD, and I consider this a kind of pracitisng TDD "well"
- Your claim, framed that way, needlessly scares programmers away from TDD who need it
Practising TDD well and improving design skill forms an amplifying feedback loop, don't you think?
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