Robert Martin and Jim Coplien on Test Driven Development, architecture evolution, how much design up front

Coplien said that he thought - 1/2 hr up front modeling the basic top level structure for a 2 million line of code telecom system. The question of how much up front, vs how much is pure TDD is an interesting one. This is a hard balance to strike I think. When planning a global scale trading system for example - there must be some up front planning… How much??

Food for thought.

-Chris

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