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Thorbjørn wrote:

I am going to try to use svn to _try_ some XP-like stuff, especially 'release often' and 'continuous integration.' I don't have a System i
I would suggest that you look into "test-driven development".

Thanks Thorbjørn! I already found http://www.rpgunit.org/ which is sort of like JUnit, but more for RPG. I have been spending a lot of time on various XP and Scrum mailing lists so I'm familiar with TDD.

I don't know if a discussion of TDD with RPG is on topic for this list exactly, but I will say that TDD has much more merit in greenfield (brand new) development. When one has a monolithic application of the 'load, sort, print' paradigm, it is very difficult to isolate code to do TDD because one database input record will fire many separate pieces of the monolith.

Perhaps if WDSC had a refactoring tool that could operate on RPG, we might see more TDD in the RPG community. SOmething to think about working on in my not so copious spare time :-)

--buck

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