Test Driven Development Is Dumb. Fight Me.

A great idea hiding behind a terrible implementation

Mike Cronin
ITNEXT
Published in
4 min readJul 18, 2019

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That’s right, I think Test Driven Development (TDD) is straight up not good. And worse, like a shady Influencer subtly editing out their natural cellulite, it’s giving jr. devs unrealistic goals. So with my tongue firmly in my cheek, let me rant about how writing tests for functions that don’t exist is crazy.

Abe simpson shouting at a cloud labeled “TDD” while a headline reads “Dev yells at coding style.”
pictured: me wasting time with opinions on the internet

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I’m Mostly Focused on JS and web development, but anything coding related is fair game