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A virtual pet that helps you raise your TDD practice.

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52 pointskyleburton14 comments

Be nice if this was a plugin for Jenkins

And for VIM :-) But its difficult to imagine TDGotchi on this editor. Any ideas?

Perhaps you can adapt this little fella to do your bidding: http://vigor.sourceforge.net/screenshots/

According to the page, from green to red does not subtract any point but running twice the tests with errors subtract 5 points? Kind of arbitrary rules that have nothing to do with TDD if you ask me.

Adding an intentionally-failing test a part of the regular flow. TDD 101.

Yes, but how core is "don't ever write more than one test at a time"?

If we assume that this would legitimately motivate a developer to change their behavior, it seems like it would just incentivize them to run tests less frequently.

  If you test run fails twice, TDGotchi is upset.

I believe that should be "If your test run fails twice, TDGotchi is upset."

Programming has jumped the shark.

I think HN has seen enough snarky comments for a while. I would request everyone try and abstain from content-free comments.

I think HN has seen enough comments telling everyone else how to behave.

Edit: Apparently folks like being told what to do. shrug Carry on then.

Actually folks like it when second parties tell third parties not to do stuff that the aforementioned folks weren't planning on doing and find annoying when they are done by said third parties.

I think that's a misrepresentation. HN has enjoyed a long run as a forum with a professional vibe. Its owner, and the core constituency, do not intend to let it become the next Slashdot/Fark/Digg/Reddit. You can find more background here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

While I disagree with the tone of this comment, I have to admit my first thought was "TDD has jumped the shark". The last thing I want is some random critter getting happier or angrier based on the results of my testing. I don't want "Agile Clippy", thanks.

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