[ctb_mg]

Test driven development to my knowledge is only mandated in one major Agile Framework, and that's eXtreme Programming. Individual Agile implementations may use TDD, but it is not mandated directly by the Agile Manifesto.

XP has a very low adoption rate (1% [1]) ; my guess is because it does things like mandate engineering approaches (TDD, pair programming, etc).

So to state that TDD causes Agile implementations to be more political than scientific, and therefore all Agile should be eliminated, is not 100% accurate (ignoring the assumption that TDD is more political than scientific)

[1] VersionOne's 8th annual state of agile survey. http://stateofagile.versionone.com/

[ramy_d]

Wow, I'm surprised to read the adoption rate of XP. It seemed for a time everyone was all about that.

[poseid]

we had tons of discussions what Unit test framework should be used, and how much the code coverage should be. Then, whether and how to use mocks in Unit tests did not help to make better software IMHO - that is why I claimed that much fuzz about TDD is politics.