Monday, June 15, 2009

QOTD

There are two today.

Indeed the early airplanes didn't come with a specification. You just jumped into them and switched it on and hoped for the best. Much as we do with software today.
The second (in response to the relationship between TDD and specifications).
A specification is just nothing but a generalised test.
Both by Tony Hoare in his keynote The Science of Computing and the Engineering of Software at QCon London 2009.

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