A Businessman's View

(Originally published by me on www.servicevirtualization.com ) Because I work closely with application development professionals on an on-going basis, I am fairly in tune with the happenings of that profession.  (It doesn’t hurt that I, too, was in an application development related role for 18 years.)  So when I heard more and more people extol the virtues of Test Driven Development (TDD) I wanted to look into it myself to see what the hullabaloo was all about. Application code is written to fulfill the requirements outlined by the Line of Business.  Taken as a whole, the result is an entire application that provides a business service, ultimately allowing an organization to either add new revenue streams or expand the capacity of existing ones. Architectural complexity increases with time The problem that often occurs is that “this isn’t your father’s application development job” anymore.  The need to remain competitive in the marketplace often adds the requireme