Although I encourage you to incorporate TDD into your workflow, I should add a disclaimer that it is not a silver bullet. TDD does not magically make your code performant or modular; it's just one technique that forces you to design your system better, making it more testable and maintainable.
Furthermore, TDD induces a high initial cost, so there are a few cases where this investment is not advisable:
- Firstly, when the project is a Proof-of-Concept (PoC). This is where the business and developers are only concerned with whether the idea is possible, not about its implementation. Once the concept is proven to be possible, the business may then agree to approve additional resources for the proper development of this feature. ...
