Recently I watched David Heinemeier Hanson's controversial railsconf keynote and I thought I'd express my views. His main argument suggests TDD is dead. Oddly I agree with many of his headline views which I try to document below. I just not convinced of his supporting arguments. DHH appears to have a dim view on TDD practicing developers; whom he generalises write simple unit tests having 100% code coverage, use many mocks, but test nothing real. His example was a bug in Basecamp which lost customer data, their code had 100% code coverage, but still didn't work. I really doubt there are many developers who just stop when they hit 100% unit test coverage? I'm not going to speak for everyone else; I only started using TDD (not exclusively) about 18 months ago despite 12 years developer experience writing some really cool stuff, some well designed and some not so well... The well designed stuff has tended to be driven by TDD. I've never used code metrics, I use...
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