Kent Beck discusses debugging using tests

I’m not generally a fan of “debugger” tools. They seem laborious, manual and clumsy compared to the speed and precision of unit tests. However, it’s not always easy to decide what test to write to localise a particular bug. Kent beck offers a technique he calls the “Saff Squeeze”.

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Tools for Agility

A potentially interesting white paper from XP and TDD “though leader” Kent Beck. I can’t work out if this is just the warm-up act for some sort of Microsoft product announcement, though …

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