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The programming talent myth

The programming talent myth

Posted Apr 30, 2015 9:29 UTC (Thu) by ms (subscriber, #41272)
In reply to: The programming talent myth by dskoll
Parent article: The programming talent myth

> Communicating your intent to a computer is the easy part. Communicating your software design to other people is far more demanding.

Completely agree. I have zero patience for programmers who claim tests are a sufficient form of documentation. Lots of people seem to think this. Like a test can express overall architecture design.

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The programming talent myth

Posted May 5, 2015 1:36 UTC (Tue) by speedster1 (guest, #8143) [Link]

> I have zero patience for programmers who claim tests are a sufficient form of documentation. Lots of people seem to think this. Like a test can express overall architecture design.

That sounds like a good challenge for an anti-obfuscation contest: solve X non-trivial problem and write a test that clearly expresses the overall design :)

The programming talent myth

Posted May 5, 2015 21:04 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

How about tests that are also documentation?

http://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-expectations/v/2-14/...

(personally, I'm against it just because the writing style tends to be awful... but, I've got to admit, the documentation is always up to date and always correct... that's very rare.)


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