| Title: | Test Driven Development At Google |
| URL: | http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2007/01/23/test-driven-development-at-google/ |
| Printed: | October 12, 2008 |
| Source: | The Rimm-Kaufman Group Blog, info@rimmkaufman.com |
- January 23, 2007
- 1 comment
We’re big fans of test-driven development (TDD) at RKG.
Writing unit tests at the same time as (or even before) corresponding code leads to a stronger, more robust codebase. Strangely enough, even with the extra work, we find it speeds development. TDD makes debugging easier. TDD also provides definititive documentation of edge-case behavior.
Yes, we’re big fans of TDD.
But not so much as Google, it seems.
Google (according to Nial Kennedy via ValleyWag) provides TDD tutorials in their bathroom stalls (!) :
If this is a gag, then I’ve been had. But I think it is real.
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Testing on the Toilet is real. In my experience there are plastic document holders placed above each urinal and on the wall of toilet stalls. A new “episode” is added every week or so.