Great article! As I say to TDD cultists when they advocate their propaganda, if you're using TDD to design your api, then you're starting on the wrong foot. The design should be worked out before any production code or tests are written, though I prefer the term Design Driven Development.
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See, I'm not even convinced TDD is entirely on the wrong foot, especially when applied with nuance. Clean tests can serve an important role in providing documentation for behavior in code.
For me, it's when tests are seen as the ONLY form of planning or documentation for a codebase, or even consume a majority of time to take away from other forms of documentation that I find a problem.
Similarly types aren't a perfect form of docs, but can be of help. It's all about balancing what information you're providing new devs in different mediums to create a whole story
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Great article! As I say to TDD cultists when they advocate their propaganda, if you're using TDD to design your api, then you're starting on the wrong foot. The design should be worked out before any production code or tests are written, though I prefer the term Design Driven Development.
See, I'm not even convinced TDD is entirely on the wrong foot, especially when applied with nuance. Clean tests can serve an important role in providing documentation for behavior in code.
For me, it's when tests are seen as the ONLY form of planning or documentation for a codebase, or even consume a majority of time to take away from other forms of documentation that I find a problem.
Similarly types aren't a perfect form of docs, but can be of help. It's all about balancing what information you're providing new devs in different mediums to create a whole story