Simon Willison’s Weblog

27th November 2007

I can't help feel that BDD is a case of a bad idea spreading; the motivations for BDD are fine (a change in developer testing workflow), but the technique they use to try to reach the desired workflow is totally bizarre.

— Ian Bicking

Posted 27th November 2007 at 7:16 pm

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This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 27th November 2007.

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