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Sounds great in theory (programming.dev)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

It's criminally underutilized. Of course, one reason is that it's hard to TDD a moving target. Since it's also hard to get people to actually fucking specify things in a lot of real world cases, it's just one more thing you ought to do, but aren't allowed to.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    I think you have a point with the moving target, but also I believe that development should pretty much always be a moving target. You should be refactoring your domain based on new experiences and new knowledge all the time. So, personally, I find integration tests much more useful, because they test the input and output of a system, rather than how it's implemented. I can change my domain without having to modify my tests and that makes changes to the domain much simpler.

    That being said, I also definitely recognize the advantages of TDD, I just don't think it's a silver bullet; there's good projects for it and bad ones

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