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Thanks. Automated testing, yes. But e.g. TDD?

• Silhouette 15y ago
  I'm not claiming TDD as something widespread before Agile. I'm claiming TDD as something unproven that the Agile consultants started mixing in later. (Please see the list in my second post to this thread.)
  • wpietri 15y ago
    For the third time: you are incorrect about the history. Test-first development was created by working programmers as part of Extreme Programming before the term "Agile" even existed.
    • Silhouette 15y ago
      I'm not necessarily disputing that, though I note that you have changed from TDD to merely test-first development, which I don't think is the same thing. My point is that TDD, like several of the other practices in XP that do seem to have originated with those people during that time period, is to this day not proven as any better practice than the alternatives.