Kind of funny. Someone asked almost the same question as I on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1266955/are-really-great-programmers-known-to-u

Kind of funny. Someone asked almost the same question as I on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1266955/are-really-great-programmers-known-to-use-unit-testing http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1266955/are-really-great-... And got Josh Bloch as the answer. Not surprisingly, I find myself like Knuth. I like unit tests where I feel very uncomfortable. And I usually known when designing. At the TDD level it does seem like religion. There doesn't seem to be strong evidence that it hurts nor strong evidence that it helps. A lot of people are successful w/o it and some are successful with it.