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Documentation Driven Development (2022)


Test Driven Development is often taught to improve a your workflow; I present Documentation Driven Development as an alternative approach.

The problem is that, by doing so, you lose one of the most significant benefits of test-driven development: Its ability to force you to confront your API ahead of time. Documentation can be found in many forms: design mockups, API reference docs, well-formed tickets, future plan writeups, and more. I realize this article already has more twists than an M. Night Shyamalan film, but here’s one more; documentation driven development, as we’ve explored today, is an established concept.

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