Hi

I have been watching one of googles tech talk videos about BDD.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8135690990081075324&q=engedu

and maybe we can use this to fix up D's unit test environment what do you think ?

Knud Sørensen schrieb am 2006-05-12:
> I have been watching one of googles tech talk videos about BDD.
>
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8135690990081075324&q=engedu
>
> and maybe we can use this to fix up D's unit test environment what do you think ?

Maybe I'm ignorant, but BDD seems purely to be yet another marketing term.

The testing part is basically common sense testing applied at the module level. As for the design part ... well have you ever considered how an architect designs a house? Replace tests with conditions imposed by law and mock up models - err objects - and you arrive at BDD.

Thomas

Knud Sørensen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have been watching one of googles tech talk videos about BDD.
> 
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8135690990081075324&q=engedu
> 
> and maybe we can use this to fix up D's unit test environment what do you think ?

It seemed like the speaker mentioned some existing problems but didn't spend enough time explaining the solution. The syntax sugar alone surely isn't enough.

"Knud Sørensen" <12tkvvb02@sneakemail.com> wrote in message news:pan.2006.05.12.12.09.15.88059@sneakemail.com...
> Hi
>
> I have been watching one of googles tech talk videos about BDD.
>
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8135690990081075324&q=engedu
>
> and maybe we can use this to fix up D's unit test environment what do you think ?

Sounds just like DbC, but with syntactic sugar that would just bloat D.  And with some things only possible or necessary with an interpreted, dynamically-typed language like Ruby.

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> 
> Sounds just like DbC, but with syntactic sugar that would just bloat D.  And with some things only possible or necessary with an interpreted, dynamically-typed language like Ruby. 

For what it's worth, Google is crazy for Python and this presentation may well have been targeted that way.


Sean