I'm going to get eaten alive for this but TDD is a something I think people adhere to in a dogmatic fashion without a lot of thought put into API ergonomics and organic development.

I am 100% in agreement that your code needs to be tested to the point before you reach diminishing returns. I do not feel like cementing yourself in place by writing your tests first is the way to accomplish this.

You write your tests first and now a) you are now going to try to fit your implementation into that mold and b) you now have 2 things to refactor until you reach stable parity with your design and implementation.

Unless you're designing and writing code against a predefined spec/RFC, I really don't feel like strict adherence to TDD is beneficial. Code needs to develop organically and allowed to form its own flow instead of being hammered into a predefined hole of a certain shape.

Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're god damn right I'm living in the fucking past

In reply to Re^3: What to test in a new module by stonecolddevin
in thread What to test in a new module by Bod

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