From: Gawnsoft <xlucid@...>
Date: 2004-07-01T21:42:58+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby + Unit Tests

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:15:35 +0900, Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@verk.info>
wrote (more or less):

>On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 20:28, martinankerl at eml dot cc wrote:
>
>> I am currently trying out test-driven development, and want to write a 
>> small FXRuby application. 
>
>2 cents worth of friendly advice: don't do that.
>
>Rich, GUI classes are notoriously hard to unit-test, and at the same
>time they are usually very easy to test manually. I think, majority of
>"test-infested" programmers don't write unit tests for thick GUIs, for
>this kind of reasons. 
>
>It is certainly a wrong kind of project to get a taste of test driven
>development.

Presumably one does TDD on the domain objects, and some sort of manual
testing on the interfaces?


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