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Re: [PhillyOnRails] rspec slides
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:26:16PM -0400, Cassius Rosenthal wrote:
> >>* slows development for experienced coders
> >Writing tests may add marginal more time to the initial coding but
> >saves mountains of time squashing bugs later.
> I don't think the time added is marginal. As Aaron Mulder points out in
> his comment earlier in this thread, it depends on the project. With
> multiple coders working over a significant development period, the time
> added for 'good' specs approaches marginal. With a small number of
> programmers working on a quick app, experienced coders would do better
> to just write the implementation, and reserve specs for unusual models
> and logic. Otherwise they will get caught in copy/past hell,
> maintaining trivial agreement between the specs and the implementation.
Again, not to be a dick, but exactly how much BDD have you done with RSpec
or similar? How big is your team and codebase? Are these statements
opinion or your experience?
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Toby DiPasquale
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