Talk:Tester-driven development

I doubt that "Tester Driven Development" is a valid term, or that it provides any value. One google-hit outside Wikipedia, and on that page the meaning is different from here. Maybe the article should be removed? Epim 14:18, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure it's an actual term, it looks like it comes from a patterns book. See the anti-pattern list. I think a section about the pattern on the TDD page would be interesting (provides an opposing POV), but I don't want to write it without reading the book or reviewing the SE literature to learn about the pattern. Maybe the book isn't noteworthy enough to list all the patterns in it, which seems to be the larger issue here. --Chris Pickett 16:46, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't say that one book is enough to way that this is a term that should be widely adopted/written in Wikipedia. Please provide at least two more respected instances.

My main concerns with the term is that:

it is easily confused with Test-Driven Development
it gives negative connotations for software testers
the name don't consider other causes for long testing phases
the description don't see any potential positive aspects of tester-drive (making something good of something bad)

Epim 10:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]