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Research into software engineering practices is thin on the ground, but there's a good blog collecting and discussing papers, including some on TDD, called It Will Never Work In Theory: http://www.neverworkintheory.org</div><div><br></div><div>I believe it's run by Greg Wilson, a University of Toronto professor who gave this (badass) talk at CUSEC a few years ago: http://vimeo.com/9270320</div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 10:42, Murray Steele wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>On 13 March 2012 00:15, Anthony Green <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anthony.green@bbc.co.uk">anthony.green@bbc.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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Links to further reading to some of the topics that were touched on tonight:<br>
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Pretotyping<br>
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<a href="http://www.pretotyping.org" target="_blank">http://www.pretotyping.org</a><br>
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Programmer Anarchy<br>
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<a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Leaner-Programmer-Anarchy" target="_blank">http://www.infoq.com/<u></u>presentations/Leaner-<u></u>Programmer-Anarchy</a><br>
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Growing Object Orientated Software Guided By Tests<br>
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<a href="http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com" target="_blank">http://www.growing-object-<u></u>oriented-software.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.natpryce.com/articles.html" target="_blank">http://www.natpryce.com/<u></u>articles.html</a><br>
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Behaviour Driven Development<br>
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Liz Keogh's definitive guide:<br>
<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/lunivore/behavior-driven-development-11754474" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/<u></u>lunivore/behavior-driven-<u></u>development-11754474</a><br>
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and writing about Chris Matts' notion of feature injection:<br>
<a href="http://www.infoq.com/articles/pulling-power" target="_blank">http://www.infoq.com/articles/<u></u>pulling-power</a><br>
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JB Rainsberger on how to split features<br>
<a href="http://www.jbrains.ca/permalink/how-youll-probably-learn-to-split-features" target="_blank">http://www.jbrains.ca/<u></u>permalink/how-youll-probably-<u></u>learn-to-split-features</a><br>
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Modular Design<br>
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or how a solid code base can be arrived through design principles and judicious refactoring as Marcus pointed out<br>
<a href="http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2011/05/11/xp-2011-j-b-rainsberger-a-simple-approach-to-modular-design" target="_blank">http://www.markhneedham.com/<u></u>blog/2011/05/11/xp-2011-j-b-<u></u>rainsberger-a-simple-approach-<u></u>to-modular-design</a><br>
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TDDing Spikes Away<br>
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<a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/tdding-spikes-away-with-rebase" target="_blank">https://www.<u></u>destroyallsoftware.com/<u></u>screencasts/catalog/tdding-<u></u>spikes-away-with-rebase</a><br>
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Evaluating Customer Delight<br>
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<a href="http://www.energizedwork.com/weblog/2012/02/stop-pushing-features-and-start-delighting-users" target="_blank">http://www.energizedwork.com/<u></u>weblog/2012/02/stop-pushing-<u></u>features-and-start-delighting-<u></u>users</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.energizedwork.com/weblog/2012/02/measuring-purpose-measuring-customer-delight" target="_blank">http://www.energizedwork.com/<u></u>weblog/2012/02/measuring-<u></u>purpose-measuring-customer-<u></u>delight</a><span><font color="#888888"><br>
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<br></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Towards the end of the panel, Alex Speller (I think) mentioned a lack of empirical evidence about TDD and development methodologies in general. I remember watching a talk about exactly this kind of thing late last year, but for the life of me I can't find the link (Chrome doesn't seem to have any of my browser history before the start of Jan). I did a quick scan of Confreaks and InfoQ and a cursory google search, but nothing seems to ring a bell. Chances are that it was a link I followed from a tweet by someone on here, so I'm hoping someone else remembers it and can dig up the link.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, the point is that there is research in this area, I just don't think it's widely publicised, or particularly mature as a field.</div><div><br></div><div>Muz</div></div>
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