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TDD's contribution to software quality scrapes the bottom of the barrel. Attention to detail in scalable design, formal verification, fuzzing, and mutation testing offer deeper guarantees of successful operation. But of course, the American ideal "make money" is worn proudly on the rim of management noses. It's the wrong prescription, but they're too busy counting their bills to care. This is evident especially in cybersecurity, where the posture amounts to silent prayer that no one stumbles across their JRE 1.0's and their Windows XP's and Google's latest attempt at a programming language with buffer overflows by design--batteries included.