Subj : Re: extreme programming (thoughts)
To   : comp.programming
From : Dennis Crane
Date : Mon Jul 25 2005 12:55 pm

> It sounds like they were doing "no comments, no tests, and no design",
Yeah, the design was bad and they did bad tests, because tests were written
in the same "hurry-up" XP manner like the main code. :-)

> not XP.
May be. But I got into this trap twice. And all these guys called themselves
XP coders. I don't like XP ever since. :-)

> If they had a defect rate, did they respond by writing tests for each
> defect, then writing more tests in the defect's category?
The enormous amount of bugs and the overall quality of the programs made it
cheaper to redo the job than to write a test for each defect.

Dennis Crane, CEO
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