Approach to coding, good/bad

[Ofnuts]

My coding approach is a more or less the "inside-out" one. I try to split the problem into manageable parts, then write these parts with functions that I try to keep small and focused. Since most of my professional coding is server code that's hard to debug on the fly, I test my functions very throughly on the side before adding them to the code (I'll often write as much "test" code as "production" code). I'll even change the design to isolate the "hard" parts in pre-testable functions. Once all this is working I put the bricks together with some glue code to make the final application.

I do like the current trend of starting by writing the (automated) tests, then writing the app is just debugging an empty source file (or source code repository).