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As the original guilty non-tester, I’m in!

-Jeff

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On Jan 13, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Matthew P. wrote:

what the app does, a sql dump or schema.rb and a comprehensive test
Sounds pretty cool. Definitely worth considering. I’d add the
last. The instructions to people would be "satisfy all the tests
of development is, and more test cases get piled on. Then, when you

  • Matt
    Yeah the rules would have to be thought out some more. i guess what
    I suggested isn’t really full blown TDD if you get all the tests to
    start with and a full schema. But something along these lines would
    be fun i think.
And I like your idea about rake Matt, but maybe that would take too

much effort in order to get started. So what about something like
this instead:

  • A description of the functionality of the final app is posted.

  • It gets broken down into user stories(xp style).

  • The contestants get a suite of tests for one small user story at a
    time

  • Everybody gets a few days to make the tests pass and implement that
    story

    I don’t know, its only an idea but I think it would be fun. And i’m
    open for suggestions. If enough people want to take part in this then
    I will try to get it organized. So if anyone is interested respond to
    this thread and say so. if there’s enough people then we can come up
    with real rules and a gameplan and move forward from there.

    This should probably be a very small app with maybe 4 or 5 user
    stories needed to finish the whole thing so it doesn’t take too much
    time for
    anyone to finish.

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-Ezra Z.
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