Is TDD Dead? (2014)
Sadly, in this day and age of development and the need to constantly ship things, TDD has been dead for a long time. In my 12 year career, I have heard lots of people talk about test-driven development, but I&#x27;ve never seen it in a workplace (at least none I&#x27;ve worked at).<p>On my own personal projects I have dabbled with TDD and I&#x27;ve seen the benefits it can provide, but it does make even simple programming tasks take a lot longer. Sadly, companies these days (especially during the pandemic) can no longer afford the luxury of development taking longer, even if it does mean the end result will most likely be cleaner and have less bugs. The company I work for see shipping potentially buggy code and fixing it as bugs are reported as an acceptable development practice.<p>With the advent of automated builds and deployment processes, it is way too easy to quickly ship code and roll back bad releases or push out emergency patches. Things don&#x27;t have to be perfect the first or second time around. The optics to non-technical executives seeing code go out and features released are a lot better than seeing things take longer to develop.