Beyond Agile
When something comes along that’s better than Agile, I’ll be the first to jump on it. Even though I’m an “Agilist,” it doesn’t mean I’ve abandoned all my old practices. I still draw on a lot of the skills I developed in my youth.
It’ll take some years before most of what I’m talking about in this book becomes mainstream. But the value of test-first development is so great that most software development will be done that way. It may not look exactly like TDD looks to us now, and it may not use the same tools or be within the same language, but some form of separate verification of code as it’s written will be incorporated into the software development process, perhaps even into our programming languages and IDEs.
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