Re: Re: Ten Years of Test Driven Development

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Phlip <phlip2005 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> Michael Feathers and I are working up a talk that will be a review of
>> effectively 10 years of TDD. The idea is partly just to look at the
>> history, but mainly to consider what we've learned over all this time.
>
> When was Rails launched?

July 2004.

It's a "first" for a GUI platform invented _via_
> TDD,
> without it strapped on as an afterthought...

Although I agree Rails is notable for being one of the first to have a
unit test framework baked in, I'm not sure that it's the first example
of a test-driven GUI. Either way, it does belong on the timeline.

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