[rspec-users] BDD/Rails/Shoulda

[Scott Taylor]

On May 3, 2008, at 11:07 AM, John D. Hume wrote:

> Even when working test/spec-first, when I'm pairing with someone who  
> isn't experienced working that way, I find myself constantly saying  
> "I'm pretty sure we don't need that yet."  (I've just written the  
> spec my pair is trying to get passing, so I know how little code we  
> need.)  If it happens then, it will certainly happen when that same  
> developer is uncommenting code already written.
>
> Out of curiosity, Ashley, what size team are you working with where  
> you don't see this problem?
> -hume.

I remember a joke that Aslak mentioned a while back ago on this list:  
He had a friend (or co-worker) who wanted to write a tool which would  
delete every line of code which didn't get covered with rcov.  I found  
that remark funny because Aslak didn't know if his co-worker was  
joking or not.

Now that I think about it more, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to  
have such a tool like this, even if it was just for didactic purposes.

Scott


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> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Ashley Moran <ashley.moran at patchspace.co.uk 
> > wrote:
>
> On 2 May 2008, at 06:13, Tero Tilus wrote:
>
> I can well imagine how you may end up not getting all the advantages
> of BDD thru uncommenting process when you compare to clean BDD.  But
> uncommenting is definitely better than writing spec on top of existing
> code, which in turn is _way_ better than not writing spec at all.
>
> Perhaps "uncommenting" is a bad description.  What I do is write  
> specs for the behaviour I want, and see what bits of the code (if  
> any) do that.  (Which will obviously be pretty similar to the what  
> it does anyway.)  What I *don't* do is pick a line of code and write  
> a spec for it so I can uncomment it.  I guess that's how you would  
> run into trouble.
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> Ashley
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