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Discussion on: What's your atomic bomb?

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John Alcher

Developed a management system for a client way back. Was recently asked to maintain/add features. I didn't write tests back then, so yeah, every code change is a bomb waiting to explode.

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Ben Halpern

Been there!

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John Alcher

The silly thing is that even knowing how things can get horribly wrong, I just can't find the discipline to write tests for legacy code. I strictly subscribe to TDD for new projects though.