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by the_gipsy 1558 days ago
3x is optimistic. Tests can "suffocate" a codebase to the point where no one dares to make any cross-cutting changes anymore, at all.
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particularly since TDD organizations often maintain the constraint that the tests _should never change_ since they somehow embody the requirements. personally I'm not settled on an architecture until I'm part of the way through..I can't really understand how its all going to fit together until I'm in the process of building it.