Test-driven development (TDD)
Side by Side: Comparing Test-driven development (TDD) and agile model-driven development (AMDD) By Scott W. Ambler
TDD shortens the programming feedback loop; AMDD abridges the modeling feedback loop.
TDD provides detailed specification (tests), while AMDD provides traditional specifications (agile documents).
TDD promotes the development of high-quality code; AMDD encourages high-quality communication between your stakeholders and other developers.
TDD provides concrete evidence that your software works, whereas AMDD supports your entire team, including stakeholders, in working toward a common understanding.
TDD provides finely grained, concrete feedback in minutes. However, concrete feedback requires developers to follow the practice Prove It With Code, and they may become dependent on non-AM techniques; AMDD lets you get verbal feedback in minutes.
TDD ensures that your design is clean by focusing on creation of callable and testable operations; AMDD lets you think through larger design and architectural issues before you code.
TDD isn’t visually oriented; AMDD is.
Both techniques are new and therefore may be threatening to traditional developers.
Both techniques support evolutionary development.
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