14 July 2008

Chapter 1. What's the point of Test-Driven Development?

We are now publishing chapters of our book, Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests in a separate section of the site. We will publish news about new content in the blog but will not include the entire contents of each chapter as blog posts.

We have updated Chapter 1, What's the Point of Test-Driven Development? in response to feedback from blog comments and the discussion group and improved some of the diagrams. More comments are always welcome.

7 comments:

Mike Henke said...

What book is this a chapter from? Thanks,

Steve Freeman said...

See our previous post

http://www.mockobjects.com/2008/07/growing-object-oriented-software-guided.html

It's something that Nat and I have been working on

Still struggling with the formatting...

Curious Attempt Bunny said...

What kind of feedback are you and Nat looking for?

Personally I think the model used for The Art of Agile Development was great. The WIP website is gone, but the forum remains. I'd actively contribute to a forum or here on your blog if that's the level of involvement you're looking for.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/art-of-agile/

Steve Freeman said...

We'll take what we can get...

Seriously, though, our intention is to start by just putting the material up and then see where it takes us. If it gets too noisy, then we'll port to another site.

Nat Pryce said...

If we set up a forum, does anyone have a preference for or against Google Groups or Yahoo Groups?

Curious Attempt Bunny said...

I don't have a preference for a discussion group.

The Agile-Book web-site for the WIP book was there. Some of the structure still remains there (the contents page, mainly). Assuming you get enough participation to make it worthwhile then once you get enough material it will become hard to navigate and you might want to consider a similar structure.

It'd also be nice to see where you're headed with your book.

Nat Pryce said...

We've created a Yahoo Group for people to give feedback and discuss the content.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/growing-oo-software-guided-by-tests/