If you know anyone who is into building Flash Games or if you just know
someone looking for a practical example on how to Test Drive AS3 with
AsUnit, please send them this link:
http://geekswithblogs.net/rstackhouse/archive/2007/07/16/113967.aspx.
Test Driven Design is a rather recently popularized way of coding in AS3 (or
any language) that can produce dependable, predictable results (please
forgive me if I am preaching to the choir). TDD shifts the focus in
development from "just writing some code" to "making sure code works from
the very beginning". TDD also makes it very easy to approach a problem that
you may not be comfortable with, and may not know how to approach otherwise.
Beyond this, TDD usually makes for very clean code and code that is
immensely more maintainable. If you are a TDD practitioner and you see me
saying something not quite in line with your thinking on TDD, please call me
on it. I am throwing this out there to help folks learn about AS3, TDD, and
Flash Game Development and hopefully to learn from them.
Thanks and Enjoy!
Robert Stackhouse
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