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Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design?

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albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) writes:
> Bottom line I think that test driven development is crucial for
> those who can't make specifications, so instead they use tests
> sets as specifications. It works, but it may confuse the issue.

The point of TDD is that you can run all the tests every time you change
the program, to make sure (or anyway have higher confidence) that you
didn't inadvertently break something with your change.  There are many
automated test frameworks and deployment tools (search terms:
"continuous integration") built around this idea.  To do the same thing
with a specification would require manually checking the whole program
against the spec after every change.

TDD also helps guide the organization of the code, since you have to
write every part to work under both the real application and under the
test system.  That helps keep the interfaces clean.  Normally a
functional specification wouldn't reach down to such a fine grained
level.

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  Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-06-02 09:52 -0700
  Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-06-02 09:55 -0700
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    Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? djc <ciesinger@gmx.net> - 2015-06-05 02:50 -0700
      Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-06-05 11:32 +0000
        Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? djc <ciesinger@gmx.net> - 2015-06-05 05:01 -0700
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        Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-07 23:12 -0700
          Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-06-08 09:48 +0000
      Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-07 20:59 -0700
        Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? djc <ciesinger@gmx.net> - 2015-06-10 05:59 -0700
          Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 09:05 -0700
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  Re: Is Forth About Tinkering Rather than Design? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-06-03 05:17 +0000
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