It’s Time to Redefine TDD

Phillip Johnson
CodeX
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4 min readJan 1, 2022

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Everybody asks for TDD but nobody uses it.

We’ve all interviewed at companies for Software Developer roles where Test Driven Development (TDD) is pushed as common practice at the company and is stipulated in the role spec. Most do. We know the answer they are looking for… the definition of TDD… write tests first, only do enough to get the simplest of tests passing and follow red, green…

Phillip Johnson
CodeX
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Over 20 years experience in software engineering, mostly in Tech Lead and Lead Dev positions. Passionate about software craftsmanship.