TDDbE: Times We're Livin' In

The answer in my practice is that I will entertain a brief interruption, but only a brief one, and I will never interrupt an interruption.

 That's a useful constraint right there.

This is the kind of tuning you will  be doing constantly with TDD.  Are the teeny-tiny steps feeling restrictive?  Take bigger steps.  Are you feeling a little unsure?  Take smaller steps.  TDD is a steering process -- a little this way, a little that way, There is no right step size, now and forever.

Yet another definition of TDD.  Heh.

As usual, I'm not particularly fond of the currency test; again, it lacks connection to the business needs.  Expressed another way, there's no assurance that the test, as written, is a good example for future clients because we aren't actually looking at the needs of the client.  We're just sort of assuming that we're going to end up with micro-methods eventually anyway, so we might as well proceed to them without passing go.