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Re:Why I don’t use TDD or BDD by steveklabnik on Saturday September 04, 2010 @06:22PM (#1663534)
> Tests don't prove the absence of bugs. They can only prove the presence of them.

Absolutely, and having a list of where they were (now) present was a real productivity boon.

It's true, I think we're arguing over something very small. I don't think automated testing is the end-all be-all. But I do think it's much much better than not doing it.

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Re:Why I don’t use TDD or BDD by kenjackson on Saturday September 04, 2010 @06:28PM (#1663548)
I do want to be clear. That I'm not arguing against "automated testing". It's really against a style of unit test development that is all the rage: TDD/BDD. The devs I've worked who practice it, is through the use something like Cucumber to drive the development of the application with tons of unit tests.

I'm a huge advocate of automated testing. And again, just in my experience, the productivity and perceived code quality I saw coming out of the BDD/TDD side of the house didn't seem to be a step in the right direction.

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