Re: [myhdl-list] IP core library

[Henry G. <he...@ca...>]

On 26/04/15 11:30, Euripedes Rocha Filho wrote:
> 2015-04-26 5:16 GMT-03:00 Henry Gomersall <he...@ca... 
> <mailto:he...@ca...>>:
>
>     On 25/04/15 22:49, Euripedes Rocha Filho wrote:
>     > I'm doing some personal variation of TDD, lots of unit testing
>     but not
>     > "driving" the development. I'm not that religious :)
>
>     So you're not doing TDD at all then, you're just doing testing. TDD is
>     useful precisely because the tests are written first.
>
>     Switching to TDD is a total mindset switch (hence your religious
>     comment). It basically becomes psychologically impossible to write
>     untested code.
>
> Yes, but you will agree that such a mindset take some time to build,

I find one just has to do it. I did a project that was half-arsed for a 
while and it never felt complete.

Only when I decided to do it properly did I fully grok the joy.

>
>     I'm actually an advocate of BDD over TDD, as behaviour is actually
>     what
>     one cares about.
>
>
> I did some read about BDD but didn't practice it yet.

This is a really interesting and I think pretty misunderstood field. I 
recommend this blog post:
http://hadihariri.com/2012/04/11/what-bdd-has-taught-me/

I wrote a bit about it myself in light of that post:
https://hgomersall.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/from-test-driven-development-and-specifications/

Great stuff!

hen