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"Testing is a tool for helping you, not for using to engage in a 'more pious than thou' dick-swinging my Cucumber is bigger than yours idiocy. Testing is about giving you the developer useful and quick feedback about if you're on the right path, and if you've broken something, and for warning people who come after you if they've broken something. It's not an arcane methodology that somehow has some magical 'making your code better' side-effect..."

I liked this part; it made me laugh. I also get red flags whenever I hear "X is the one true way to do Y" statements. Personally, I don't think that there is much in life that is so black and white that there could be "one true way" to do anything.

My understanding of the original agile methodologies was that each team/company needed to do what worked for them. Sure, you could follow some book to the letter and hire some certified SCRUM master but odds are, some deviations from the written plan are needed for the best results.

Either way, I'm generally a fan of TDD, test automation and metrics ... where they make sense and where they aren't going to be abused. Use tools and methodologies that make sense for the current situation, not just because some book/person tells you that you'll fail unless you use them.