Re: OOP/OOD Philosophy



Michael Feathers wrote:
> krasicki wrote:
> > XP was not promoting testing years ago. XP retreated to testing
> > emphasis because few people argue that it's good. But testing advocacy
> > doesn't validate XP as a good methodology per se.
>
> Nope. Testing was a core practice of XP from the beginning. It was it
> the white book, as test-first and functional testing. If you go to Ron
> Jeffries' site you'll find the original writeups of the C3 project's
> practices:
>
> http://xprogramming.com/Practices/xpractices.htm
>
> And, if I remember correctly, the paper submitted to OOPSLA by C3 in the
> late 90s, the one that spurned interest in XP, emphasized testing as well.
>
> Where are you getting all of these odd ideas?

Memories of previous trips around this bush.

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