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Development Methods (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Test-driven development: You spend all your time building a gizmo to tell you if you're on Mars or not. A week before the deadline you start frantically building a rocket.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    TBF the analogy is especially strained for that one. Per another commenter, Boeing actually makes rockets with waterfall, but test-driven only really makes sense for software, where making local changes is easy but managing complexity is hard.

    Edit: Actually, there's even software where it doesn't work well. A lot of scientific-type computing is hard to check until it's run all the way through.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    That's where digital twin engineering HOPES to bridge the gap.

    There is definitely a contium of how long it takes to build and test changes where increasly abstract design makes more and more sense vs the send it model

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