[ChuckMcM]

I suspect if they had called it Architecture Driven Development (ADD) rather than Test Driven Development (TDD) it might contextualize better. Basically what the author explains is that you can design an architecture top down from simple requirements, deriving more complex requirements, and then providing an implementation strategy that lets you reason about whether or not you are "done."

But that 'test' word really puts people in the wrong frame of mind at the outset.

[searls]

Yeah, the common implications of the word "test" have always been problematic. The BDD movement did a good job bringing that to light, but I didn't want to re-litigate that all in my post just to make a point about semantics. Totally agree, though.