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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by gridspy on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:25AM (#12742326)
That used to be my attitude too.

However the experienced programmer will be very happy when they don't have to re-test all of the old functionality manually after a large re-factor of some core code.

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Re:An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Dev... by ivan_gammel on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:39AM (#12742376)
Experienced programmer may write tests after the main code is complete to make sure nothing is broken during refactoring. It has nothing to do with TDD.
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