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by Decker87 1584 days ago
This is where TDD folds in on itself. It's nominally about iteration, but requires that you know how the inputs and outputs will look up front before iterating.
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TDD is about iterating on the implementation. If you don't know what your inputs and outputs will look like then you're still in the specification phase and not ready to write code.

You can use TDD as part of an iterative specification process as well, but then you need to apply it for each iteration: determine the new specifications, write new tests based on those specifications, and update the code until the tests pass. Then revise your specifications based on feedback and repeat the process.