I've looked at the Zorro demo ? interesting! Currently we?re planning a case-study of TDD (VS an existing TL-practice). We have tried to get assistance from the case company in ?harvesting? some of the data you focus on to be able to compare variables such as time spent for testing/coding, testcode size/prod. code size etc. We?re also interested in finding ways of validating any effect that the TDD-practice may have on product quality and speed of production and also potentially on code quality (maintainability, code design-style and others). (As usual), it turns out to be hard to do so in practice ? these guys are putting maximum pressure on reaching the next deadline ? avoiding anything that does not add direct value to the project.
Thus, I find the idea of automating some data collection tempting. However, in this case they use VS.Net, not Eclipse. Do you see any possibility to (easily) port Zorro to work with Visual Studio? My guess is that it would take a lot of rework.. However, it would open up a lot of new cases for you. Any plans?
Good luck with you work.
