But Uncle Bob said that if I follow his TDD process by rote then my code will automatically attain good design! /s
It’s better that everybody do route tdd, than no tests at all. It’s better to have all methods exactly 3 lines of code, than all methods being 3 pages long.
Uncle bob preaches better baseline, experience will teach all the nuance.
Disclaimer: I dont do tdd. But it’s nice method of work to know.
Much of his advice seems silly or extreme now, but I believe that’s because he (and his cohort of likeminded programmers) won. Things have improved dramatically. The extreme advice worked. The problem, of course, is that you can’t just declare victory and move on. So now we have The Church of TDD and the like.
It might not be such a problem in other professions but good software development is heavily trade off oriented so dogmatism is especially dangerous.
It's a shame because TDD is pretty good but he puts people off it.