News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Test-Driven Development is Stupid by alkonaut on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @08:21AM (#10620495)
This. I agree TDD can cause more harm than good in software design, but my test suite saves me from shipping several regressions per day that I would have otherwise not noticed.

Obviously if you are against testing in general you are against TDD (it's just testing taken to the extreme).

I thought he at least was going to say that he preferred higher level testing, to low level unit tests (which can be a fair point, you can find 90% of the issues with 10% of the test code if you accept that you can't always isolate the failure based on the test report). But no. He is against testing.

Re:Test-Driven Development is Stupid by akshatpradhan on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @11:14AM (#10621557)
How does TDD cause more harm than good in software design?
Re:Test-Driven Development is Stupid by alkonaut on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:55PM (#10622706)
You quickly get to the situation where the code is clean, concise modular and all those good words, but requires one more tweak/indirection only for the unit testing. the result is popularly called "Test induced design damage".