From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2009-03-01T04:16:15+09:00
Subject: Re: conversion aid for 1.8.7 to 1.9.x transition?

Bill Kelly wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
Thanks Bill. I appreciate reading about your experience. Perhaps I can 
shortcut my own development a bit, with help from more experienced folks 
such as you.

t.

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