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How to handle “TDD does not work in real life!” during code katas

How to handle “TDD does not work in real life!” during code katas.
Doing code katas to learn real-life TDD can at first look like a scam to many developers. Listening to understand, explaining the deliberate practice pedagogy behind code katas, and early mob programming sessions are three techniques to maintain a constructive mood during code katas.

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Moderate approach does it. People took it to extremes. It pays off to just analyze the parts where you need better coverage and more confidence, and work on them first.

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joeb

We haven’t really tried TDD on our projects. Only unit tests, test-after production code. We probably should start learning TDD.

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jss

We do it mostly on the core/domain part of our application.

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