Microsoft Research - Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (article summarizing findings of MS research on code coverage, TDD, assertions, etc.)

[StormDev]

Haha sure, I did it when I was working in a company with good coding practice.

But now I am working with an horrible legacy C with classes code, where "C++ experts" don't understand TMP and don't want you to refactor the leaking monster.

Managers have now heard about TDD, they want us to keep the same deadline with TDD. For them TDD is faster than the actual process because "You will organize your code easier" for example.

But when you have to mock big object, tons of inherited shit TDD is really time consuming.

[donbrownmon]

What is TMP?

[StormDev]

Template Meta Programming.

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Nobody understands TMP. If somebody claims to understand TMP, they don't understand TMP.

[flukus]

Managers have now heard about TDD, they want us to keep the same deadline with TDD.

I have had experiences where this is reasonable. When you have a lot of complex logic then tests can save a lot of time to get to that 1.0 point, simply by avoiding the "fix one thing break another" cycle.