Hi Darren, great article, and you nailed the relationship between TDD and Agile.

1 min readJul 30, 2022

About advantages, the more experience I have with TDD, the more advantages I found. And some of your disadvantages, well, or it is TDD not well applied, or it is part of the software development process.

Once I tried to do an exhaustive list of advantages and I wrote them here:

Looking for the Best Performant Programming Practice

TL;DR It is TDD. It is amazing how this simple practice has so many good impacts.

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And

The Real Value of Testing

It is not only quality assurance, it helps to steer the project at all levels.

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And the explanation of what happens when developers do not apply TDD correctly:

The Test Definition that Destroy Teams

It may seem ridicule, but there is a test definition that impairs the quality of the code and makes coders anxious.

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Thanks for the article!