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- It may be true that professors "rarely" know how to develop software, but you can't pin any observed pushback on TDD on that. I've been a professional programmer for 40 years. I'm also not a fan of it, for the reasons I elaborate on in comments. It's yet another trend (similar to extreme programming) that showed up supposedly as a "tada!" moment, that ultimately shot itself in the foot by forgetting the bottom line: Are you spending more time in component-to-component developement now than you would otherwise be spending in unit testing prior to release?tgm1024--Monica was mistreated– tgm1024--Monica was mistreated2020-03-09 15:53:33 +00:00Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 15:53
- IOW, if you're good at TDD, you're already good at the fundamentals of unit testing. If you weren't, any of your pre-tests you came up with during component level development would be similarly weak. Not necessarily specific to you, but if you've only been in the game a couple decades or so, it's particularly difficult to see how trends come and go, and more so: Why they do.tgm1024--Monica was mistreated– tgm1024--Monica was mistreated2020-03-09 15:55:23 +00:00Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 15:55
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