From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2011-09-29T14:29:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Tree - Recursive print function

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'll be honest, I have a certain amount of disdain for the TDD community,
> because I spent about 2 years trying over and over again to effectively
> employ the practice with almost no results (actually, frequently
> experiencing negative results).

Fortunately, there has been research[0] into the effectiveness of the
"test first" philosophy.

The executive summary: It increases the time to develop software (by
15-35 percent), while lowering the amount of bugs significantly (by 60
to 90 percent).

[0] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/ese/nagappan_tdd.pdf

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