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What are the drawbacks of using test-driven development?

Alex Pushkarev on December 08, 2022

I have been practising TDD professionally for 4 years now and I have seen some strong benefits of using TDD. On the other hand, there're some drawb...
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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

The pragmatic way: we require each PR to have tests but people are free to use TDD or another approach depending on the task at hand and personal preference.

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Alex Pushkarev

I second - for it doesn't matter how the result as longs as it good. Establish objective measures instead.

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Maxi Contieri

Nice.

It is always good to point out these 4 items

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Alex Pushkarev

Thank you Maxi!