Comments on: TDD: Removing the clutter http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2010/01/24/tdd-removing-the-clutter/ Thoughts on Software Development Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alexandre Gazola http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2010/01/24/tdd-removing-the-clutter/comment-page-1/#comment-31036 Alexandre Gazola Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:35:31 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=2082#comment-31036 That´s a very important thing to keep in mind when writing tests. I also use the approach of test builders and that of removing unecessary local variables of test methods. When eliminating the clutter, it´s also important to balance the degree of DRY-ness of our tests and the expressiveness of them, as you pointed out in http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/01/30/tdd-test-dryness/ . All the best! That´s a very important thing to keep in mind when writing tests. I also use the approach of test builders and that of removing unecessary local variables of test methods. When eliminating the clutter, it´s also important to balance the degree of DRY-ness of our tests and the expressiveness of them, as you pointed out in http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/01/30/tdd-test-dryness/ .

All the best!

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