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That isn't how it is sold.

It only works for basic use cases and conference talks.



I'm not trying to sell anything. I'm reporting you an anecdote that I'm a practicing software engineer, I've been professionally writing code for almost a decade and I do use TDD when I write code. I don't care if you do or do not.


Great for you, for me it is snake oil that quickly shows its weakness when I ask someone to write a fullblow application end to end with TDD, every single aspect of it.

Designing a GUI with test first, doing a game engine with tests first, handling distributed computing algorithms with test first,...

Including the best data structures for handling the set of application requirements.

Yeah, not really.




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