[madhadron]

It could also mean that the experiment didn't approximate the ideal you were aiming for. It's not nearly that simple.

TDD has almost nothing in common with physics. Engineering is about repeatable process. Science is about repeatable results. Testing, CI, and all the rest are part of a process of repeatably shipping releases of software that are functional. That's all a distraction for science (though some engineering may be necessary to construct the apparatus you want).

[ryanmarsh]

TDD is one solution to the troubles humans have when designing complex systems where the entire solution can not be arrived at through a constructivist approach. Put differently the solution is to complex for a human to keep in their head at once. I came to this conclusion after reading “notes on the sysnthesis of form” by Christopher Alexander

TDD is about people, not software.