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> I am against writing unit tests in general

> How often have you seen a program crash? If it was developed by a large software company, chances are it was written using TDD. Clearly, TDD is not a magic bullet. So, TDD does not "prove your code works".

> Developing software is like a painting commission

Several reasons I gave up a third of the way in. I rarely write tests first, but I can appreciate that it works for plenty of people - my brain just doesn't work that way.

It's hard to take anything in this article seriously because of the nerdrage and the dismissal of anything he disagrees with as "stupid".



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