Benefits of TDD and common myths
Every methodology has its own benefits and myths. The following sections will analyze the key benefits and most common myths of TDD.
Benefits
TDD has its own advantages over regular development approaches. There are a number of benefits, which help in making a decision of using TDD over the traditional approach.
- Automated testing: If you have seen a website code, you know that it's not easy to maintain and test all the scripts manually and keep them working. A tester may leave a few checks, but automated tests won't. Manual testing is error-prone and slow.
- Lower cost of overall development: With TDD, the number of debugs is significantly decreased. You develop some code, run tests; if you fail, re-doing the development ...
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