I'm sure they are. He makes his living as a software process consultant, right? And the author of the original article is right: Bob Martin is dismissive of t

I'm sure they are. He makes his living as a software process consultant, right? And the author of the original article is right: Bob Martin is dismissive of tools that aren't unit tests, and "discipline" in Bob's article is the discipline to... write unit tests. Your "underlying point" is just making an uninteresting truism out of a more specific argument.