Even when working test/spec-first, when I'm pairing with someone who isn't experienced working that way, I find myself constantly saying "I'm pretty sure we don't need that yet." (I've just written the spec my pair is trying to get passing, so I know how little code we need.) If it happens then, it will certainly happen when that same developer is uncommenting code already written.<br>
<br>Out of curiosity, Ashley, what size team are you working with where you don't see this problem?<br>-hume.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Ashley Moran <<a href="mailto:ashley.moran@patchspace.co.uk">ashley.moran@patchspace.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 2 May 2008, at 06:13, Tero Tilus wrote:<br>
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I can well imagine how you may end up not getting all the advantages<br>
of BDD thru uncommenting process when you compare to clean BDD. But<br>
uncommenting is definitely better than writing spec on top of existing<br>
code, which in turn is _way_ better than not writing spec at all.<br>
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Perhaps "uncommenting" is a bad description. What I do is write specs for the behaviour I want, and see what bits of the code (if any) do that. (Which will obviously be pretty similar to the what it does anyway.) What I *don't* do is pick a line of code and write a spec for it so I can uncomment it. I guess that's how you would run into trouble.<div class="Ih2E3d">
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