> [...] whether TDD is effective in general. If you read the actual article (even just the abstract), you would realize that evaluating TDD in a general profes

> [...] whether TDD is effective in general. If you read the actual article (even just the abstract), you would realize that evaluating TDD in a general professional settings was neither the goal nor the conclusion of the authors. You are arguing a straw man and hoping to make inferences that are unsupported by the paper's claims. The authors do a good job of scientific communication about their methods, results, and limitations. This is good practice for scientific communications. Don't think it's sufficiently generalizable? Fine, feel free to expand upon their work. That's how science functions. ("truth", "prove", and "rigor" were verbatim, primary components of jdlshore's comment. The two former words have very specific scientific meaning.)