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Sexy New Development Methodology!

(This was going to be a joke... but now I suspect I might actually be serious!?)

Forget Test-Driven Development!

Try:

TODO-Driven Development!

Here's the process: (continued....)




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'jasony' on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:56:17 GMT, writes:

Actually, throw stack ranking into this and you have a decent methodology that has high visibility and accessability to management...



'Kim Forota' on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:01:13 GMT, writes:

Tis is nice!

URL: http://zimebe.itunisie.com/



'Robert Wang' on Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:10:59 GMT, writes:

Amazing! I have been using this method to develop fractions of code. very practical, never thought it could be called a methodology though :-)



'vqp' on Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:09:42 GMT, writes:

It's very similar to my own method, with the only difference that the actual code is done by other persons in my case (I'm a Lord and I have a bunch of code-slaves)

This way, I get all the fun and the code-slaves have to deal with the progrems

a little late for this post, but I think that it worths it



'Dan North' on Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:44:15 GMT, writes:

I wonder if I can claim prior art?

A couple of years ago I introduced this on a client project, in the form of Comment-Driven Testing. So in my (Java) TDD test, I would have something like:

public void testShouldFindCustomer() {
// create a customer

// look up customer

// verify customer was found
}

Then simply fill out the blanks. I found it much more useful in the tests (where I was making up new behaviour) than in the code itself (where I was simply getting the test to pass).

This has survived into my current (Java) testing template, which looks like this:

public void testShouldDoSomething() {
// setup

// execute

// verify
}

(with the "DoSomething" bit selected for editing).

I still use comment-driven testing when I am trying out different ideas, and I find it is often enlightening to be decoupled from the programming language whilst I try to decide what the system needs to do next.





'secretGeek' on Wed, 09 Jun 2004 05:02:42 GMT, sez:

yep, nobuddy -- it is an example of stepwise refinement!

here's a Nicklaus Wirth article on Stepwise Refinement, from 1971:

http://www.acm.org/classics/dec95/




'nobuddy' on Wed, 09 Jun 2004 04:41:21 GMT, sez:

This is stepwise refinement.



'Aaron Robinson' on Wed, 09 Jun 2004 00:12:19 GMT, sez:

Via Slashdot this evening... it looks like Microsoft has patented your new development methodology. ;)

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=6,748,582


'Mitch Denny' on Mon, 07 Jun 2004 04:59:29 GMT, writes:

You are my hero.

URL: http://notgartner.com



'Josh Baltzell' on Sun, 06 Jun 2004 13:02:03 GMT, writes:

Even one of the idiots at community college told me to comment first.

I code almost exactly the way you are describing, I'm not all that sure if anyone told me to do it like that, but I think it is helpful to think about the problem with pseudo code before writing a bunch of junk code.

URL: http://shortdomainname.com



'Roy Osherove' on Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:44:06 GMT, writes:

If "Paper Prototyping" made it, so can this :)

URL: http://www.iserializable.com



'Dominic Cronin' on Fri, 04 Jun 2004 06:03:53 GMT, writes:

Isn't that just XP?



'haacked' on Fri, 04 Jun 2004 03:46:51 GMT, writes:

This is a tool supported version of the guidelines Steve McConnel gives in Code Complete! ;)

He basically says to write pseudocode with comments and then start implementing the code underneath the comments.

URL: http://haack.org


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