[vellum]

>Of course one of the disciplines I'm talking about is TDD. Anybody who thinks they can go faster by not writing tests is smoking some pretty serious shit.

That's some serious strawman. In between 0 tests and TDD, there's a lot of room to maneuver.

[j_baker]

Is it a strawman? Because I have heard plenty of developers espouse this attitude.

[vellum]

Some people don't write tests. But Bob was only comparing TDD and 0 tests. A lot of people sprinkle a few unit tests for sanity, instead of letting tests drive development.

There’s a wide spectrum of successful coding practices that get products shipped. Bob’s article only compares the outliers.