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In an earlier article, I tore through some terrible arguments used to advocate for TDD that I see all too often (even by experienced engineers). I said in that piece that I would eventually go thro…

It’s an easy trap to fall into, being so entrenched in traditional development that you’re afraid of “wasting time” writing tests, when you could be making stuff. The idea is that some people haven’t learned to write good tests because they’re lazy, resistant to change, slave to coverage metrics, addicted to mocks, unable to think of interfaces without implementation details, or otherwise failed by their education. You got lucky this time that your exploration yielded results similar to your initial guess You’re a god-tier developer, in which case you shouldn’t even bother with paradigms

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