Jason Gorman3d ago

I've been watching developers learn TDD for 25 years, and I have a reasonable ballpark on what it takes.

Roughly 1,000 red-green-refactor-commit cycles for the "rules" to become habits, and to scale the learning curve enough to make TDD work in practice on everyday code bases.

If you progress from regular practice (e.g., 2 hours a week) to TDD-ing on most of your code (10-15 hours a week, apparently), you're looking at 4-6 months.

And that, folks, is why "We tried TDD and it didn't work"

Show threadKID223d ago
@jasongorman could you point me to any suitable websites or docs outlining the basic concepts of TDD? Where’s a good place to start?
Show threadNot🐧A🐧Convicted🐧Felon
@kid22 @jasongorman You could try https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestDrivenDevelopment.html
bliki: Test Driven Development

a bliki entry for Test Driven Development

martinfowler.com
Jun 14 at 8:58amWeb
Show threadNot🐧A🐧Convicted🐧Felon2d ago
@kid22 @jasongorman The reality is the best way to learn TDD is by pairing with someone experienced in the practice.
Local user groups or meetups are a way of finding someone.