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Test Driven Development Myths

January 28th, 2009
Urs Enzler

I’m often hearing thoughts about Test Driven Development from people not using it, which are not true (at least not 100%).

Therefore, I want to describe some of these myths here:

  • Writing unit tests is difficult and complex
  • Projects take longer because of the additional test code that has to be written
  • Not everything can be tested with unit tests. Therefore TDD cannot be used.
  • There is no need for architecture and design because TDD claims to evolve that from tests

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