> My experience is that you can write an essay like this about any development practice Right, but in this case, he's writing about testing. One would argue th

> My experience is that you can write an essay like this about any development practice Right, but in this case, he's writing about testing. One would argue that relevant now because the foolishness around how to test and how often has reached ridiculously dogmatic levels. > What is the reproducible, objective process or behaviour this essay is advocating? Why does it have to have one? There are many articles that make it to HN that call out software practices that are just ridiculous and help spark a discussion about them, why can't this be one of those? why can't it be the article that makes a young developer who's slowly turning into a TDD zombie "must ... test ... everything ... all ... the ... time" pause for a second and go "hmmmm"?