Re: TDD job on Monster - will TDD become mainstream?

On 3/1/07, Jeffrey Fredrick <jeffrey.fredrick <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/1/07, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I'm not that negative. I think that someday TDD will become more
>  > mainstream. It's just going to take somebody doing TDD becoming wildly
>  > popular.  ...
>
>  You might be right, but you're reaching outside the "Crossing the
>  Chasm" model now.

Darn you!!! You're right of course.

>  And I remain skeptical because back when Microsoft was the poster
>  child of wild profit margins there were some good books (Dynamics of
>  Software Development) that documented some of their internal
>  practices, but those books/those margins weren't enough to catpult
>  those practices into the mainstream.

I read and tried to practice what I found in Code Complete.

>  Why would TDD be different?

Ok, perhaps TDD will grow organically in the same nature as OOP. I
don't think OOP really followed the Chasm model either, rather, it was
taught in universities, and as enough people graduated with that
mindset, it became fairly mainstream (I still wonder if OOP really is
mainstream some days... but that's another topic.) So, here's a
question for you. Is TDD a mainstream teaching concept at
universities? If it is not yet, will it be? What will be necessary to
make TDD mainstream in the educational system. I think that might be a
different model than industrial adoption because every professor is
their own leading edge.

What think ye?

-Kelly

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