Article: TDD is dead. Long live testing. - David Heinemeier Hansson

[ ] Paper: Why Most Unit Testing is Waste - James O Coplien

[Notes] Video: Writing Software - David…

[Notes] Video: Writing Software - David Heinemeier Hansson

computer science

vs building information systems

pseudo-sciences

eg. diet books

-> programmers

feeds Imposter Syndrome

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TDD = most successful software diet

- test first

- test driven design

measure of success = easy to test?

test > test fast > architecture

overtesting

levels of testing

unit vs system

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test metrics

- coverage

- ratio

- speed

Quality is free

vs

Testing is free

"Not if you test like this!"

cost != value

adequate testing

software engineer

vs

software writer

- clarity

Clarity

1) most important

2) practice

- read a lot of software

- write a lot of software

- rewrite a lot of software

first draft

"Oh okay, this is actually not bad. You just only did step one. If you have something on your mind, you should write it down. If you've written something down, you should rewrite it."

-- high school teacher

All first drafts are terrible

- concepts

- patterns

- practices

- classes

Video: Writing Software - David Heinemeier Hansson

Article: TDD is dead. Long live testing. - David Heinemeier Hansson

RailsConf 2014 - Keynote: Writing Software by David Heinemeier Hansson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LfmrkyP81M

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Published on May 5, 2014

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