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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by hliyan on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:50PM (#12740934)
Exactly my experience - I've done TDD for 3 different types of calculation functions in 3 different languages over the years, and all were beneficial: financial risk calculations in C++, report data calculations in PHP and billing calculations in JavaScript.

On the other hand, TDD for operations that involve I/O (including user interactions) were not helpful at all.

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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by reitoei on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @04:25AM (#12742059)
That would probably be better handled by functional/e2e testing?
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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by methyl on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:00AM (#12742225)
TDD doesn't assume you are using unit tests.
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