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by userbinator 993 days ago
I've seen so much absolutely crap code that I bet would never have been written if the author had just taken the time to step back and think and look at the big picture before writing a single line instead of focusing on microscopic bits and being hand-held through writing it all. After seeing what typical Enterprise Java looks like, I'm not surprised when I read articles about doing things like this.

TDD gives programmers a false sense of correctness. The temptation to "mess around with it until it passes" is far too great.