Test-Driven Development Is Stupid (geometrian.com)

This is a useful way to practice critical thinking by spotting the logical fallacies employed.

Starts with:

  I am against writing unit tests in general, since experience shows that they actually prevent high-quality code from emerging from development

And the quality goes a long way downhill from there. Even if TDD generally led to poor outcomes, this article fails to support that thesis.

My take is that TDD is woke. Everyone has a gut feeling it's stupid but no one wants to be the first one in the team to point out that it's stupid, since if I did I'd get labeled as a cave man whose brain is too small to understand all the intricate reasons why we need to do this seemingly stupid things.

This article grumpily skewers its own thesis at the top:

>This indeed makes TDD less ridiculous.

>However, even though I didn’t address this....

(perhaps he should though?)

Inside out TDD (what he talks about) fails horribly, outside in works well.

It isnt even really about TDD actually: low level unit tests suck 90% of the time even if you write them after.