Clarification: this isn’t a post about BDD vs. TDD, it’s a post about Spike and Stabilize. Tagging those now.
For love of TDD

Dan North and I have been talking about some different ways of writing software that matters. We’ve been talking about not doing TDD, and not automating BDD scenarios.

A lot of people have reacted to these suggestions with ( Read more... )

We have a strange desire for control.

I was in a planning meeting with my project manager and several of the devs. “What happened?” the project manager said. “Why did this one story take so long?”

“There was some functionality we needed and didn’t know about,” I replied. “We managed to get it in before the deadline, though.” The business had been ( Read more... )