Amitai Schleier

@schmonz@schmonz.com

Force multiplier.
Outcome improver.
Decision sharer.
Developer, leader, coach.
https://agilein3minut.es podcaster.
Musician.
Bad poet (award-winning).
JoinedApr 05, 2017 (@octodon.social)
SelfHostedMar 30, 2025
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Podcasthttps://agilein3minut.es
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Amitai Schleier »
@schmonz@schmonz.com

TDD is waste if

- Things always go as you, your teammates, and your customers expect, or
- Nobody cares about the costs when they don’t

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George Dinwiddie »
@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social

@schmonz
- You're never going to come back to this code/system.

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    Amitai Schleier »
    @schmonz@schmonz.com

    @gdinwiddie@mastodon.social friendly amendment: s/You’re never/Nobody’s ever/

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      Jay Bazuzi »
      @JayBazuzi@mastodon.online

      @gdinwiddie @schmonz There are times where TDD is an investment today that gives me a corpus of tests that might be useful in the future.

      There are times when TDD helps me go faster today. This hour. In the next minute.

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        George Dinwiddie »
        @gdinwiddie@mastodon.social

        @JayBazuzi @schmonz
        Yeah, I had a manager who gave me a last-minute feature that "had to go out tonight" and said to skip my usual testing to save time. I wrote it TDD because that was the fastest way I knew to work. What I didn't write was tests at the UI level.

        As we were leaving, his phone buzzed because the build failed. I had forgotten to check in one new file. ;-)

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