Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/07/07 16:54

Bill wrote:
> On Dec 2, 7:17 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Bill wrote:
>>> The best reply I have had to this post was off-line. Should the author
>>> of that message grant permission, you will read more about his
>>> application and tests in my presentation which I will publish under
>>> the Creative Commons license after it is presented to the OINK-PUG
>>> members in January.
>>> I was confident that the response would be low, but not this low...
>>> Regards,
>>> BB
>> I would suggest this is not the right place to be asking this question.
>> Most of the people here are working on web sites, not open source
>> applications.
>>
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>> Jerry Stuckle
>> JDS Computer Training Corp.
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>
> Thanks Jerry,
>
> However, may I respectfully suggest that you can (and likely should)
> use open source PHP projects to create a wide variety of "web sites"
> from blogs, to personal home pages, to enterprise web portals. I also
> contend that to preserve your sanity that you use or write for
> yourself software that is unit and functional tested.
>

How I work should be of no concern to you. You have no idea of my
background, experience, or the projects I work on.

> The aspect of your response that is most unsettling to me is that an
> individual such as yourself that works presumably as a "trainer" is
> utterly unaware of TDD, as is sadly much of the PHP community. I
> intend no offense in making this observation. In fact, you may be
> among the top 10% of competent trainers in computing and, so long as
> you're not training in software development, remain ignorant of the
> concept of TDD. However, if software development is something JDS does
> for profit then investigating TDD might be the smartest move you've
> made in a while.
>
> Best wishes and good luck,
>
> Bill
>

I am quite aware of TDD. But whether I am aware of it or not, and
whether I use it or not is completely immaterial to your question.

You asked about OPEN SOURCE applications. I do not do much open source;
neither do most of the people in this newsgroup.

And BTW - TDD is nothing new, nor is it the greatest thing since sliced
bread. There are a number of problems with the theory which make it
unsuitable for larger projects.

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