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by lmm 1555 days ago
Then what do you call it where you write programs bottom-up but still write test cases before implementation? Because that's the most common approach that I've seen being done and called TDD.
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I call it wasting time trying to fit square pegs in round holes. Many things and approaches have their virtues and their place, be it top-down, bottom-up or tests. Silver bullet techniques and dogma have absolutely none.
Not my experience, shrug.
That's when you adopt other XP practices in addition to TDD.