Showing posts with label False Positives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label False Positives. Show all posts

Saturday, March 16, 2013

On the Stoplight Heuristic, and 'Mindless' TDD and Test Automation


I read an interesting article this morning about TDD, and one possible outcome where developers are so focused at keeping things 'green' that they may get a bias around their code which drives them to jump to alter the code to make the tests green.  It's an interesting read, and a cautionary warning to developers who may too easily fall into the Test Driven Development groove.  Please read it before making the jump