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> If TDD is so great, why is it so uncommon in the industry? Likely because it's not actually that great. Every ultra-dogmatic TDD programmer I've met has also
by seattle_spring 5y ago
> If TDD is so great, why is it so uncommon in the industry?
Likely because it's not actually that great. Every ultra-dogmatic TDD programmer I've met has also generally been weirdly argumentative about literally everything.
I've never met nor heard of a TDD fundamentalist that I looked up to.
- muzani 5y agoHave you read the original TDD book by Kent Beck? The book is not dogmatic at all, it just proposes tests as a way to move forward when the scope is too big to keep everything in your head. Most blogs I see on TDD actually go against the original principle. Coverage is a side effect, not the goal. Kent Beck's the kind of down to earth programmer many would look up to, and part of it is because of how he wrote the original book.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Every ultra-dogmatic TDD programmer I've met has also generally been weirdly argumentative about literally everything. Have you considered that has nothing to do with TDD and everything to do with being ultra-dogmatic?
- seattle_spring 5y agoI should have been more clear: I've never met anyone who's into TDD and isn't ultra-dogmatic about it.