I wish you all a healthy, successful and adventurous new year 2023.
All the best, Burkhard 💜
Why TDD is a Main Driver for High Performance
Autumn 2022 saw a new fashion: TDD bashing. I came across the three posts listed in the section Around the Web: TDD Bashing below and their reverberations in social media. The posts are unfounded and ignorant opinion pieces.
In 2022, we can and should discuss the effectiveness of TDD on an objective level. In the book Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (see also my review), Nicole Forsgren and her coauthors provide empirical evidence that applying the principles and practices of Continuous Delivery leads to less rework, higher quality, faster delivery, less team burnout and a more collaborative work culture. In short, it leads to higher-performing teams and more profit to the company.
Our research shows that technical practices [like test-driven development and continuous integration] play a vital role in achieving [higher Continuous Delivery performance].
Nicole Forsgren et al., Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, 2018, p. 41