Ben Allfree :: Painless Programming

Every developer who has reached a certain plane of enlightenment thinks about how to drive development. Is it driven from requirements, or art, or what?
Test-Driven Development spurred a whole generation of developers to adopt a philosophy of simplicity and agility. TDD says to make the easiest thing work next by writing a test first and [...]

TDD says: Do the simplest thing next.
NDD says: Do the thing you need next the simplest way you can.

I’ve had this idea for a while that the principles of Test-Driven Development (TDD) or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) could be applied to everyday living with spectacular results. Below is an untested adaptation of TDD principles to life.