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Tue, 01 Jul 2003

Brian Marick writes Things Agilists Want to be True. It’s a great start, but I have the gut feeling there’s more to it. I can’t point to any specifics right now, but the synergy is quite interesting. I just purchased the Scrum book he refers to last week, and I also just told a group of testers this morning that I predict that TDD will be renamed within the next year. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to explain to people that the validation aspect of TDD is secondary to the way it drives the design of the code (including this morning right after reading Brian’s blog).

So maybe it’s time to start brainstorming other terms. I’ve had a few come to mind:

Usage Driven Development
Client Driven Development
Outside-In Development

I think Client Driven is my preference at this point, but that may be a result of my affection for plays on words. I’m not sure how common of a usage it is for a client of a class to be another class that calls it. It also brings up the issue of it being a human client of the software who defines the requirements that get refined into unit tests.

I’m also going to be observing the team dynamics as our department takes on more of an agile philosphy. Without much authority behind me this morning, I was trying to explain to the testers that developers are encroaching on their ‘territory’, and they should be responding in kind by expanding their test automation and styles of testing.

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