Comments on: Does TDD speed up development? http://www.21apps.com/agile/does-tdd-speed-up-development/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:58:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Andrew Woodward http://www.21apps.com/agile/does-tdd-speed-up-development/comment-page-1/#comment-661 Andrew Woodward Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:02:16 +0000 http://www.21apps.com/?p=659#comment-661 Oreilly, I think that is one of the main takes from the post; We need to think in terms of Software Production rather than just the coding part of the process. I think Doron from Typemock post gives a really good real world example of how TDD can save save time and improve quality and confidence. http://blog.typemock.com/2008/08/why-tdd-rocks.html Oreilly,

I think that is one of the main takes from the post; We need to think in terms of Software Production rather than just the coding part of the process. I think Doron from Typemock post gives a really good real world example of how TDD can save save time and improve quality and confidence.
http://blog.typemock.com/2008/08/why-tdd-rocks.html

]]> By: Oreilly http://www.21apps.com/agile/does-tdd-speed-up-development/comment-page-1/#comment-660 Oreilly Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:44:50 +0000 http://www.21apps.com/?p=659#comment-660 TDD in my experience does not speed up development, but actually slows it down significantly. How can PMs or senior management expect a developer to take the same amout of time to code an app with full scripts, and test at the same time that it takes to develop without TDD. Where the time and money is made up is through QA and maintenance of the app. If the code is rock solid from V1 on, then the theory is that it'll require less time and maintenence in the long run. TDD in my experience does not speed up development, but actually slows it down significantly. How can PMs or senior management expect a developer to take the same amout of time to code an app with full scripts, and test at the same time that it takes to develop without TDD.

Where the time and money is made up is through QA and maintenance of the app. If the code is rock solid from V1 on, then the theory is that it’ll require less time and maintenence in the long run.

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