I completely disagree with you. In practice you probably don't need to be that strict about TDD, but if you're being introduced to it with no TDD experience at

I completely disagree with you. In practice you probably don't need to be that strict about TDD, but if you're being introduced to it with no TDD experience at all then you should absolutely be doing this. Dogmatic TDD is the best way to practice and learn TDD. If you don't do this then you _will_ inevitably learn bad habits. Once you learn how to TDD like this you will begin to understand when you don't need to be dogmatic, but that only comes with experience.