That was absolutely horrifying. It's like a train wreck. I can look away. I read the entire thing. I'm sure that my thought process while developing code is ug

That was absolutely horrifying. It's like a train wreck. I can look away. I read the entire thing. I'm sure that my thought process while developing code is ugly and messy and scattered too. However, this level of TDD just strikes me as a mechanism to generate legacy code to maintain. It's as if, upon embarking on a new project, these people so miss their giant codebases, with slow builds, and spaghetti grep results, that they have concocted a way to maximize the rate of legacy code generation, so they can feel at home again. The result is that you do a lot of what feels like work. You're constantly moving code around, changing names, tweaking stuff. You tell yourself that you're "Refactoring" and that's how it's supposed to work.