I am surprised to encounter so many people who claim something like this:
"You must understand how to design before you can practise TDD well."
I say the following in response:
- Practising TDD "poorly" still helps many programmers
- One can learn design skill by practising TDD, and I consider this a kind of pracitisng TDD "well"
- Your claim, framed that way, needlessly scares programmers away from TDD who need it
Practising TDD well and improving design skill forms an amplifying feedback loop, don't you think?
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Teaching evolutionary design and TDD since 2002
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