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Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Is TDD Dead?- Episode #5 & #6 - Q&A, Final Thoughts

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Technology, Careers, Business

4.558 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2014

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Martin, Kent and David take questions and wrap up with their final thoughts on TDD.

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0:00.0

So here is the final of is TDD dead conversations that we've been having over the past few weeks.

0:10.6

And this time round the three of us are going to tackle some of the questions that have come

0:14.4

up.

0:15.4

We've been having the Q&A app on the Google Plus system up to put together the questions and we still

0:24.2

have that app up ongoing so if you want to add a question to our concern for us to think

0:30.4

about do add it to the app or use your vote on the existing questions we are going to be

0:36.4

influenced fairly strongly by

0:38.1

how many votes go on questions and we're not necessarily going to be

0:42.0

completely influenced by that but that certainly is going to be a factor we're

0:45.3

going to look at the higher numbers first and the basic way we're going to do

0:49.2

this is going to be a longer session we're going to aim at perhaps up to an hour the first half an

0:57.0

hour or so we are going to look at answering these questions and then for the final half

1:01.4

an hour so we're going to try and sum up what we've learned and what appers feelings are

1:07.0

about this whole topic for that first part where we're doing the Q&A, we're going to take turns and each of us

1:14.6

is going to pick a question and begin to answer it, give the opportunity for other people

1:20.6

to answer it and then pick somebody else to answer the next one and we'll go around in a flow

1:24.6

like that.

1:25.6

And since I'm starting, I get to pick the first

1:27.8

person who has to pick something so David it's you.

1:30.7

Excellent. Well let me just pick the one we have straight from the top

1:35.4

Mike Harris is asking what is an example of an open source project which has

1:40.0

test induced design damage? What is an example of a project that does TDD right I think that that would be wonderful if we had a clear

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