[voiceofunreason]

> I swear almost every critique of test driven development boils down to "I wrote a bad test".

It does seem that way - this one theme does drown out all of the other criticisms.

That said, (to first order) everyone's been "doing it wrong" for 25 years (give or take, there are lots of reasonable start dates to choose from).

Maybe "everyone" isn't the actually the problem, and we need to be open to alternatives like "our theory of what makes it work isn't very strong yet", "we oversold it", or "it was only ground breaking when compared with just-winging-it".

[pydry]

There are cultural reasons why shitty testing practices have persisted for ~30 years but those practices suck equally badly whether you do them with TDD or without TDD.

TDD is a scapegoat.