TDD fell out of fashion partly because its advocates turned it into a moral test of professionalism, when people write very good software with a wide variety of workflows.

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• TDD earns its keep only where work alternates rapidly between doing and learning; choosing it is a practical decision, never a moral one. KBKent Beck1 Jul 2026similar wording
• Test-driven development matters more with coding agents than it ever did with people, because its real effect is stopping the agent writing more code than the task needs. SWSimon Willison19 Mar 2026similar wording
• Engineers are sceptical of formal methods because they were burned by CASE and UML, sold as miracle solutions and imposed on them regardless of fit. HWHillel Wayne29 Jul 2026similar wording
• Unit testing frameworks arrived so late because testing was a status divide, and testers had every incentive to keep a separate tool and language of their own. KBKent Beck1 Jul 2026similar wording
• Software is not less rigorous than traditional engineering; its record-keeping and automated verification are better than most of that field's. HWHillel Wayne20 Jan 2021similar wording

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