Full session (30 minutes)
Engineering
testing
tdd

Spun off of the eXtreme Programming movement, Test Driven Development has taken the software industry by storm. From a highly controversial approach, TDD has become a ubiquitous industry practice and the poster child of software engineering maturity. But is it all it's cracked up to be?

Severely misunderstood, argued about vehemently and lacking in critical research, the popularity of TDD is such that it's barely challenged anymore.

In this presentation we'll take a journey through the hype and into to the essence of TDD, observing its shortcomings, hidden costs and unfortunate dogma.

Tomer Gabel