TDD Is A BROKEN Practice

According to some people, TDD is a broken practice because it depends on perfect foreknowledge of what we are going to build. This is clearly a mistake, Test Driven Development certainly requires us to understand what we want our code to do before we write it, but if you don’t know that before you start, what are you writing code for? To learn TDD you need to adopt an incremental approach to solving problems and to software development it doesn’t matter if you are practising test driven development in Java, C#, Python or even COBOL, the idea is to design the outside view of your code by writing a test and only then worrying about the internal implementation. The kind of genius-level foresight that is assumed to be needed by non-TDDers is not what is needed a more exploratory approach of small steps leading to better designs is what we really need.

In this episode, Dave Farley author of “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” talks about common misunderstandings of TDD and gives some examples of how it really works, including examples from Kent Beck, who rediscovered TDD.

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