[bmh100]

I work in an environment like this. The need for TDD and CI are greatly reduced through the use of modular code design, encapsulating major logic/system units with a uniform API, and coding standards. The emphasis is inherent program quality as opposed to external quality checks. One consequence is the discouragement of individual creative flourish: "clever" code is discouraged, and descriptiveness is favored over terseness. This makes the code easy to understand, to modify, to check for correctness, and to reason about. Of course, there are still unit tests and integration tests, but their role is more low level and less visible.