From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2008-08-16T05:33:16+09:00
Subject: Re: BDD and TDD - What are they for?

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Clinton D. Judy <cdj@goh-inc.com> wrote:
> I'd like someone to give me very basic reasons for why I need Behavior
> Driven Development (BDD, see RSpec) and/or Test Driven Development (TDD,
> See Test::Unit).
>
> I'm a fairly competent programmer. I think I use what they call an
> "iterative" style of programming; I don't rush out to build the entire
> program at once. I do a very small framework, then attempt to run it and
> see if it's giving me the result I expect. If it's not, then I figure
> out what's going wrong, and attempt to solve it before going on to the
> next small part. You could say I do several iterations in an hour, to
> give an idea of time.

I pulled this link off the TDD page on our internal wiki here at work:

http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/10/4/how-i-learned-to-love-testing-presentation