From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2009-02-28T16:46:36+09:00
Subject: Re: conversion aid for 1.8.7 to 1.9.x transition?

Tom,

From: "Tom Cloyd" <tomcloyd@comcast.net>
>
> [...] I hope test writing goes faster than 
> generating the core code (which, being Ruby, really has gone
> rather smoothly).

:)

Myself, I'd been programming for about 17 years before I first
read about TDD a decade ago.  To this day, I often have to
cajole myself a little bit to proceed with writing tests first,
because it's not something i find 'easy', but 'worth it'.

In the past decade I've never yet regretted writing tests
first.  A number of times, however, I have come to regret 
taking shortcuts with something that was supposed to be a
knock-off short-term project, where contrary to my predictions
it had morphed into a longer-term ongoing project where I
began to sorely regret having omitted writing unit tests from
the very beginning.

. . . So again, I don't find TDD easy; but worth-it.


Regards,

Bill