From: Shadowfirebird <shadowfirebird@...>
Date: 2008-08-16T05:35:37+09:00
Subject: Re: BDD and TDD - What are they for?

I see your point.  I'm struggling with TDD concepts myself.  But I
think you answered your own question when you said:

> Sure, I occasionally miss, but who doesn't?

Test programs don't.  That thing they tested last week that you forgot
about?  They remembered.

I agree that the overhead is extra development time.  And I'm sure
test scripts are not infallible -- for example, if you change
functionality in the program but not in the test.

Also, I've said this before here, but as a commercial programmer I've
spent years telling people that the code can't tell you what the
program is *supposed* to do; only what it *does*.   Test scripts tell
you what the code is supposed to do.  That's pretty cool.