What Is TDD Good For?
The primary purpose of test-driven development is to go beyond mere verification and use the tests to improve the codeâs structure. That is, TDD is a software-development technique masquerading as a code-verification tool.
Automated tests are a wonderful way of showing that the program does what the developer thinks it does, but they are a lousy way of showing that what the developer thinks is what the program actually should do. âBut the tests pass!â is not likely to be comforting to a customer when the developerâs assumptions are just flat-out wrong. I speak from painful experience.
The kinds of tests written in a TDD process are not a substitute for acceptance testing, where users or customers verify that the ...
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