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It's good list. Except the TDD rant.

TDD can be reframed as codified specifications with test verifications. Then, the TDD purists do have a point.

Then it’s not (edit: pure) TDD.

The TDD purists I’m familiar with think if you write any code before you write the tests, you’re doing it wrong.

That’s a common misunderstanding of TDD, but it’s incorrect. TDD is an incremental cycle of write test, write code, refactor, repeat. Typically less than 5 lines at a time.

Given the order of the words you said, writing tests comes before writing code, as I said.

Writing one test comes before writing a few lines of code. It’s iterative. Tests (plural) don’t come before code. They happen at the same time.

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