Test Driven Development (TDD) first impressions...

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Well,

I have been using TDD for Sharp3D's development process for few days now and it already helped me find several bugs.

At first I thought having to write all the tests code will just be a waste of time I could spend on adding features to the library but after some actuall work I noticed that working on the tests isn't time cosuming as I thought and it helps me find some bugs I wouldn't find otherwise and deliver a better product.

Having said that, I really have to say that the testing and refactoring capabilities in VS2005 are awsom. I only wish they would add performance testing capabilities (So I can define “test methods“ that would run and be time measured).

Oh and btw, notice the new Stopwatch class used to accuratly meaure times (for peformance etc...)

 

Tuesday, December 07, 2004 9:44:30 AM UTC
MbUnit (part of TestDriven.NET - http://testdriven.net) has timed tests.
Might be worth giving that a try - it has a lot more features than NUnit and works better than VS2005's current unit testing stuff.
Wednesday, December 08, 2004 7:06:23 PM UTC
Thanks, I will check it out...
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Eran Kampf draws upon 8+ years of experience in software development and research. Eran served in the IDF's elite geospatial-intelligence as a senior software developer and is currently working at SAP as an R&D Engineer working on Duet which is jointly developed by SAP & Microsoft.
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