{"id":15,"date":"2004-06-13T20:46:50","date_gmt":"2004-06-13T19:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2004-06-15T08:40:48","modified_gmt":"2004-06-15T07:40:48","slug":"tim-bray-on-tdd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bray on TDD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/\">Tim Bray&#8217;s <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2004\/06\/13\/TDD2004\">push<\/a> on Test-Driven Development (TDD).<\/p>\n<p>What caught my eye was the closing paragraph (repeated here):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And if you\u2019re a CIO, ask your development people if they\u2019re using TDD internally, and if they\u2019re not, go order some copies of Kent Beck\u2019s Test Driven Development: By Example and hand them out and tell them to get with the program. Anything less would be unprofessional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be just great if upper management handed out [free] books on really cool topics like this?  <\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that last sentence just the the ticket?  Clearly, Tim is a great TDD fan.  And why not?  TDD has made my life easy and it has made my users&#8217; life easier too &#8211; bugs are caught much earlier in the process.  <\/p>\n<p>Download the slides to my Delphi-oriented TDD presentation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/bug\/tdd\/ppt_tdd.zip\">here<\/a> (and the code is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/bug\/tdd\/code_tdd.zip\">here<\/a>).  A Visual Basic.net version can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/vbug\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray&#8217;s TDD Sermon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}