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by crdoconnor 2956 days ago
That's frequently a reasonable trade off. A lot of businesses need a proof of concept to test product market fit. IMHO TDD can often be a massive waste of time if that is the case.

There's weirdly not a lot of good advice out there on sensible steps to reasonably transform a rushed proof of concept in to a production quality app. Mostly it all starts with the assumption that you're building something from scratch.

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> There's weirdly not a lot of good advice out there on sensible steps to reasonably transform a rushed proof of concept in to a production quality app. Mostly it all starts with the assumption that you're building something from scratch.

Cleanroom is actually completely reasonable for this - what you must accept is that transforming a rushed proof concept into a production quality application is starting from scratch in terms of ascii in github. It's the experience of those that worked on it that is valuable to save.