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Abraham Lincoln is famously (mis-) quoted: “If you showed me a big tree and an axe and gave me eight hours, I’d spend the first 6 hours sharpening the axe.” Software shops all over the world are now practicing XP, and specifically Test Driven Development. The tutorial below sets out to accomplish three goals: 1) Offer information on known axe-sharpening efforts in XP-Land. 2) Provide a demonstration of a small set of hand-rolled tools for TDD in real-world projects. 3) Advocate the kind of deep laziness that gives making and refining tools its proper value in the framework of XP.
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Hill, M. (2002). Sharpening the Axe for Test Driven Development. In: Wells, D., Williams, L. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Methods — XP/Agile Universe 2002. XP/Agile Universe 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2418. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45672-4_39
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