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Comment on Tests Aren’t Just For Testing: Stop Using The Debugger by stephaneggermont

stephaneggermont — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:04:56 +0000

Start using a real debugger, you mean. One suitable for TDD/BDD, like those in smalltalk

Comment on Tests Aren’t Just For Testing: Stop Using The Debugger by Paul Shannon

Paul Shannon — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:48:38 +0000

@PM Hut you make a good point about the badly written code – this technique helped us especially here as we’re working with a large legacy code project. My intention was to make you think before you start the debugger, as I agree, despite my controversial title, the debugger can sometimes be useful – the key point is that a test will continue to be useful so you should aim for test in the first instance and resort to the debugger.

Comment on Tests Aren’t Just For Testing: Stop Using The Debugger by PM Hut

PM Hut — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:48:29 +0000

Hi Paul,

My opinion is that if you do a lot of debugging then it means that your code was badly written/planned in the first place. A moderate amount of debugging is expected in any project though, regardless if you’re doing testing or not.

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