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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by ams6110 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:17PM (#12740779)
I have always worked in a "test last" mode. That's the way I learned to program. Write some code, test it. When it works, write some more code, test some more.

My attempts to work in a TDD style ran up against decades of intgrained habits and I never really found it satisfying or natural.

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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by wpietri on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:41PM (#12740886)
It took me a year or so to make the transition. And I think the transition is easier to make in a greenfield or already-TDDed code base.

That's not to say that you should try it again; I like TDD a lot myself, but software methods are so interdependent that I think each person has to judge what works best for them.

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