I hear you. But I feel that saying real life is too messy for TDD 99 out of 100 times, is an appeal to fatalism. I believe, in good faith, that more often than

I hear you. But I feel that saying real life is too messy for TDD 99 out of 100 times, is an appeal to fatalism. I believe, in good faith, that more often than one percent of the time, the existence of a good plan is what enables TDD to be the successful demonstration it claims to be. The trust that we grow as practitioners of good software architecture is what enables us to have these talking points. I believe that we should feel enabled to discuss how to succeed, and less so how to fail.