Death of a cowboy

June 02, 2006

Today we installed CruiseControl to provide continuous builds for our Microsoft .NET 2.0 solution. Last week, while researching general information on Agile methodologies for a management presentation, I came across this Wikipedia entry on “Cowboy coding.”

And I was saddened, in a way, that today we we witnessing the death of a cowboy, but celebrating the birth of an opportunity for higher quality software development. And I’m excited that it should provide the spark required to push us into full-fledged TDD. Whoopie-ti-yi-yo, get along you little dogies.