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2025

We find that Claude is really good at test driven development, so we often ask Claude to write tests first and then ask Claude to iterate against the tests.

Catherine Wu, Anthropic

# 24th February 2025, 11:48 pm / anthropic, claude, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms, testing, tdd

2009

Test-Driven Heresy. Tim Bray advocates TDD for maintenance development, but argues that it may not be as useful during the exploratory, greenfield development phase of a project.

# 24th June 2009, 11:03 am / tdd, unittests, tim-bray, testing

2007

I don't do test driven development. I do stupidity driven testing... I wait until I do something stupid, and then write tests to avoid doing it again.

Titus Brown

# 25th February 2007, 2:44 pm / tdd, titusbrown, testing, pycon