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Everyone's in the confessional booth here admitting dogmatic test-first-test-everything's not so hot in practice, which is nice, but how long until it becomes safe to answer with anything other than some variation of "love testing, it's always great, I love tests, more is better" when asked how you feel about testing in interviews?

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I always answer this honestly in interviews and I've always had my interviewers say they feel the same way.

I think maybe it's a thing where you're not supposed to say it, but once you do, it frees the interviewer up to admit it as well and they're happy.

Oh of course you have to be enthusiastic about testing in interviews. Same as with agile!

Actually, for the interview for my current job (a pretty big corporation) they asked me about testing and I flatout said that I think testing has some benefit for some cases for , but I think the "100% CODE COVERAGE OMG TDD!!!" mentality is actually counter productive and makes code much harder to adapt.

I think they appreciated my honesty.

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