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TDD as a religion should die.
In my previous contract the team (before I joined) followed their own (misguided) interpretation of DDD and TDD.
They had an awful lot of passing unit and integration tests (pats on back and a slice of cake for everyone, hoorah! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) ), but the project didn't work properly from the users perspective, it continually missed all it's deadlines and after spending over £1 million on it, the team and the project have been canned (I'd got out before then, it was obvious from the start where the project was heading - I'd raised issues with management, but it all fell on deaf ears).
If you're developing a product, it's the product that matters at the end of the day, not the tests. TDD is a nice to have, but it's far from essential.
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I keep seeing a JavaTDD role advertised, I was wondering TDD was a tool box, but from this it appear to a half- bottomed approach to testing...(think I will stay clear...) 
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-TDD but it's a means to an end, it's not the end in itself.
Too many developers get obsessed with having every possible angle covered by unit tests, in many cases the size of the unit tests become significantly larger than what they're testing.
The worst thing is when you see an awful architecture with classes with 32 dependencies - or more - being injected (yes, I have seen this, hard as it is to believe  ) into the constructor, then you see the huge amount of objects being mocked in the unit tests!?!?
TDD in itself is a good thing, but in practice I've rarely seen it used in a good way. It's not the fault of TDD, much in the same way as it's not a guns fault someone gets shot.
For every team where TDD works my experience is that there are many more teams where it doesn't because of the poor team culture and/or way it's being implemented.
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Even worse, farkloads of dependency injection, levels of indirection and hopelessly complex and abstruse APIs to facilitate "proper" design, and then....
No tests.
Orrrr....
Out of date tests that are never run, and one hopeless soul in a corner who's not really good enough to be a developer but was hired because the budget isn't there for a dedicated test team so we need a muppet to hand-test the entire sorry ball of sh.... Yeeeah.
TDD has improved code quality? No it damn well has not. If anything it's become yet anohter excuse for lazy, lackadaisical people to call themselves "architects".
Do it right, or not at all.
And a good team of coders can minimize the need for test coverage by using decent, intelligent coding practices in the day-to-day.
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
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On the project I mentioned, the first warning signs to the team should have been that there were 149 projects in the solution (C#, MVC4) yet all it actually did was show a login form (and even that didn't work properly!) 
And when you mention anything you get the usual "you don't understand TDD/DDD", "that's an anti-pattern", "what you're suggesting isn't Agile", etc. (i.e. ways to try and prevent any discussion of the real problems).
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Brent Jenkins wrote: there were 149 projects in the solution (C#, MVC4) yet all it actually did was show a login form
My jaw quite literally dropped open when I read this. I know I'm guilty of gold-plating my code, but the worst I've ever gone on a single application is 9 projects.
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Mine too - when I first opened the solution there were already over 130 projects there. I'd previously seen a solution with 50 projects in another contract - that was too many as well, but they had accumulated over a few years and it did actually (mostly) do what it was supposed to.
Most solutions I come across seem to have between 10 and 15 projects including test projects. I'd say once 20 project is reached, red warning lights should be flashing.
Not that it's necessarily wrong, but at that point it's probably worth considering if a different approach may be more appropriate.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: the first warning signs to the team should have been that there were 149 projects in the solution
Seems like that would have been more like the 100th warning sign unless all of those projects just showed up all at once in the middle of the night.
Brent Jenkins wrote: and prevent any discussion of the real problems
Process, any process, that doesn't allow change in response to actual work is guaranteed to fail.
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Agreed, as I mentioned in another post, most solutions I come across tend to be between 10 and 15 projects including test projects. Anything higher than 20 is time to review and reconsider the design.
The most ridiculous thing was that Visual Studio struggled (unsurprisingly) to keep running. So brilliant suggestions flowed forth - such as doubling the amount of RAM on each PC, fitting SSD drives, changing the methodology from Agile to Waterfall (why that would help I have no idea?), and finally removing required functionality from the requirements documents because of the difficulties getting anything done because the architecture was extremely brittle and fragile.
Anything and everything except dumping the solution and building it properly.
Ah well, at least I can laugh about it all now with only a small dose of medication 
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lol
did we work on the same project?
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Possibly, or perhaps it's an indication how pervasive problems are in interpretations of TDD across the board
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Brent Jenkins wrote : TDD as a religion should die
I'm not a follower of TDD as religion.
When I come to you point. Well I don't blame on TDD. I blame the team who wrongly practicing it. Off course, if anyone who abuse the methodology will eventually fail.Same is true for OOP, Design Patterns so on so forth.
Brent Jenkins wrote : it's the product that matters at the end of the day, not the tests
Agree, it just a matter of making the best robust product. TDD will contribute it's share and most importantly it's alive.
Wonde Tadesse
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Wonde Tadesse wrote: I'm not a follower of TDD as religion.
Me neither, but an awful lot of development teams are - you can find yourself being hunted down by the Coding Inquisition[^] (and all their cunning instruments of torture) by not covering one obscure line of code with a unit test.
Wonde Tadesse wrote: Well I don't blame on TDD. I blame the team who wrongly practicing it.
That's exactly my point! While there a few organisations who have got it right, the vast majority are abusing various methodologies - they just don't realise it. Every place has it's own implementation/interpretation made up to suit themselves. Surely they can't all be right?
The "religion" angle is basically a defensive mechanism to prevent anyone questioning why things are being done in a certain (often illogical) way - a bit like the old days of shouting "heretic" at anyone who was deemed a threat.
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O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
Again, once more the gesture, then begin;
Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.
Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke.
A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
To spin! A wilde release from heaven's yoke.
Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.
The hoke, the poke--banish now thy doubt
Verily, I say, 'tis what it is all about.
Author: Jonathan Mayberry
Ok so I'm bored, taking a break from EdX Linux class. I've done 12 chapter since last night.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Thou'rt most awesome, Sir Mike. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yea, verily I concur and prithee, do more!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Obviously not written by Will - in merrie old England we coke where you poke[^]!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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He probably nicked it from Christopher Marlowe again!
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In an office:
TOILET OUT OF ORDER...... PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW
In a Laundromat:
AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES: PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUT
In a London department store:
BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS
In an office:
WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER YESTERDAY PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE TAKEN
In an office:
AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD
Outside a secondhand shop:
WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?
Notice in health food shop window:
CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS
Spotted in a safari park:
ELEPHANTS PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CAR
Seen during a conference:
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN'T KNOW IT, THERE IS A DAY CARE ON THE 1ST FLOOR
Notice in a farmer's field:
THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR FREE, BUT THE BULL CHARGES.
On a repair shop door:
WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL DOESN'T WORK)
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Quote: BUT THE BULL CHARGES
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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In the Lounge:
LESLIE IS DEAD. NO, REALLY, HE IS.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: LESLIE IS DEAD. NO, REALLY, HE IS.
You've gotta be shitting me! When did that happen? Why hasn't anybody mentioned it before?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Vivic wrote: WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL DOESN'T WORK)
Something about this one reminds me of software developers and our web sites. Mine included.
Yes, I wrote this beautiful app, but when you go to my web site many links don't work and it's ugly.
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