There's a great set of recorded hangouts between Kent Beck, Martin Fowler,
and DHH titled "Is TDD dead?": http://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/

As with that talk, I'd highly encourage you to take the time to watch them.

–Sam

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Corey Floyd <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is from a while back, but I finally got around to watching it. I
> think it is a really good questioning of our assumptions around testing
> (and of course it is a controversial talk - it is DHH)
>
> To me, the TL;DR was:
>
> - The main goal of writing code should be creating maintainable code with
> clear intent.
> - While unit testing is good, it is not a panacea for planning good
> architecture or system testing.
> - Good unit testing coverage will not spontaneously birth good
> architecture and at times it can even work against code clarity.
> - System testing is a better representation of how our code works
> - Unit testing should support our goals, and not become a goal in and of
> it self.
>
> I highly encourage everyone to carve out some time to watch.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LfmrkyP81M
>
> --
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