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When I was interviewing for a development position, the interviewer quipped "it is interesting that you come from a testing background, but didn't even mention

When I was interviewing for a development position, the interviewer quipped "it is interesting that you come from a testing background, but didn't even mention TDD as part of your approach." I reminded him that my approach involved adding unit tests concurrently with development, to which he replied "Right, but I said TDD." I came very, very close to saying "well I'm not going to get all dogmatic about the latest 'flavor of the month', if that's what you're looking for."

seldo 17y ago
If I were interviewing you, telling me to take my dogma and stuff it would be a great way to win me over. Nothing says Smart And Gets Things Done(TM) like being confident enough to say that you don't do things the way I do things, and that's okay. (Of course, if I were interviewing you, I wouldn't have asked you about TDD anyway)