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I share the same opinion. Its been a long time since I read Kent Beck's book on TDD, but I don't recall him saying TDD = unit tests. When I see people using the

I share the same opinion. Its been a long time since I read Kent Beck's book on TDD, but I don't recall him saying TDD = unit tests. When I see people using these as synonyms it feels to me they don't quite understood what TDD means and just jumped into this conclusion of "unit tests that check every method/line of code you write". Testing behavior from the user perspective should be the goal, these are the kind of tests that bring most value in the long run.

arkh 6y ago
> conclusion of "unit tests that check every method/line of code you write". I think a way to smell you're too far gone on this way is when you write tests only to get code coverage. With behavior tests, code coverage should become a tool to show where your dead code is so you can remove it.