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I pulled down Enterprise Library 5.0 and had a look at the source code. It does have an extensive collection of tests, but there's a lot of test fixture, call handler and other complex objects in the test project; it seems almost like an application in its own right. While I admire the work, I don't see how it fits into the TDD world view of red-green-refactor.

Robert Harvey
– Robert Harvey

2010-11-26 23:42:16 +00:00
Commented Nov 26, 2010 at 23:42
@Robert - I can only tell you what they told me... They used TDD when writing it.

Walter
– Walter

2010-11-27 13:22:42 +00:00
Commented Nov 27, 2010 at 13:22
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@Robert - It is not unusual for the test suite to take on a life of its own. DRY applies to both your application and the tests. In TDD you are only ever doing 1 of 4 things: Writing tests, writing code, refactoring tests, refactoring code. If you are doing all of these things in a red-green-refactor pattern, then you are doing TDD.

Jeff Knecht
– Jeff Knecht

2010-11-27 18:55:42 +00:00
Commented Nov 27, 2010 at 18:55
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@Jeff: Thanks for clarifying that. I think there are some differences between the way TDD is explained (in reductionist, mechanistic terms), and the way it is actually used in real-world scenarios.

Robert Harvey
– Robert Harvey

2010-11-27 19:08:31 +00:00
Commented Nov 27, 2010 at 19:08

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