Almost everybody understands that source code belongs into version control. Many people understand we need to test our code. Quite a few do that automatically. But everything seems to change when it comes to databases. A lot of stuff in and around databases goes untested. Heck some of the scripts don’t even live in version [...]
Some proponents of TDD say, that TDD forces you to find a good design. Some even translate TDD to Test Driven Design. I don’t agree. Mostly. Lets start with the small part where I do agree. Since TDD forces you to write test first, it forces you to think about how you want to use [...]
I try to do TDD as much as I can. But sometimes (for example last Friday) I don’t know how to get started. This happens when I don’t have a plan of how the code should look in the end, possibly because don’t completely understand part of the problem. Especially I didn’t know how I [...]
