"In this case, they were not doing the most important thing in TDD, refactoring. Not really sure you can even call this TDD. Looks more like a CF created by a b

"In this case, they were not doing the most important thing in TDD, refactoring. Not really sure you can even call this TDD. Looks more like a CF created by a bunch of folks under time pressure who thought it would be easier to add stuff than refactor." To be fair, this is a common failure mode when people try to do TDD. (to be clear, common amongst failures; not necessarily most common amongst failures, and not necessarily a terribly common outcome overall)