The Basic Question of TDD

[YvesMuyaBenda]

Not found a better written starting point anywhere--in terms of how as opposed to what-- than this

[nelsonic]

Great question & framing of TDD! thanks for sharing @YvesMuyaBenda 😉

[YvesMuyaBenda]

@nelsonic Too many resources are not sufficiently sharp and precise for me, but that TDD resource is quite nice in getting to the--what metaphor do I want to use? The meat of the topic? the heart of the topic? Be a bit more abstract and say essence of the topic?--smallest applicable component of the topic. Essentially, turning TDD into a paper and pen or even mental exercise before the question of which particular tools are going to be used to implement it . I recall a discussion on F&C were it was said that folk were still not really getting TDD, so I reckon the problem was probably conceptual, because I assume the folk on the course have been selected to pick up the raw technicals relatively quickly.

But anyways, it nice to have folk with similar interests!

[kfern]

@YvesMuyaBenda Thanks :-)

@nelsonic We can add a "Further resources" section in https://github.com/dwyl/learn-tdd/blob/master/README.md#how, before Practical

What do you think about?

[Fl4m3Ph03n1x]

We do have a "What (To Learn) Next?" section. Perhaps we could add it there?

[nelsonic]

@kfern, "Further Resources" section is a good suggestion.
We prefer to dive straight into the tutorial and leave the "further" section to lower down.
However it's about time we added a "Contents List" to the tutorial listing all the sections/sub-headings and then showing the readers/learners that there is a "What to Learn Next" and a "Further Reading" section would be great! 😉

[kfern]

@nelsonic +1

[Fl4m3Ph03n1x]

Ok, but what would be the difference between "What to Learn Next" and "Further Reading" ?
In what would they differ.
What objectives would they serve differently?

[gabrielPeart]

I would recommend to check my PlaygroundTDD out:

https://github.com/WhiskerzAB/PlaygroundTDD

The idea is to give an easy way to try and learn TDD. Any feedback and help is more than welcome and appreciated!