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The thing about TDD that took me years to understand: it is not about the tests. It is about the design pressure. Writing the test first forces you to consider the interface before the implementation. The tests are a nice side effect.

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Remi Mercier

@remi@ruby.social · 2 hours ago

@purinkle Yes! And once you wrote a whole spec file to better define the structure, you light just as well convert these into tests.

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