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Uncle Bob becoming even worse: (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] ready_for_qa@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You could also have it write your tests first from the requirements and use red green tdd as you write.

[–] Huginn12@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

In a perfect world yes, but even after all the solution in and planning, once a developer gets into the request and looks at the code things often change.

Requirement only written test steps are rarely going to be enough to cover every scenario. Saying this as a 10 year ba veteran