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When I was interviewing for a development position, the interviewer quipped "it is interesting that you come from a testing background, but didn't even mention TDD as part of your approach." I reminded him that my approach involved adding unit tests concurrently with development, to which he replied "Right, but I said TDD." I came very, very close to saying "well I'm not going to get all dogmatic about the latest 'flavor of the month', if that's what you're looking for."


If I were interviewing you, telling me to take my dogma and stuff it would be a great way to win me over. Nothing says Smart And Gets Things Done(TM) like being confident enough to say that you don't do things the way I do things, and that's okay.

(Of course, if I were interviewing you, I wouldn't have asked you about TDD anyway)




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