> OR, it's a technique to try and combat against lazy devs, I think that many of these practices are a result of programmers starting to code before having und

> OR, it's a technique to try and combat against lazy devs, I think that many of these practices are a result of programmers starting to code before having understood the problem in detail and before thinking through what they want to accomplish. Many times programmers feel an itch in their fingers to just start coding. TDD is an improvement for some because it forces them to think about edge cases and how to test their work results before starting to code their implementation. And bonus: they can do so while coding tests.