Comments by "Daniel Sandberg" (@ddanielsandberg) on "You ONLY Get Code LIKE THIS With TDD" video.

This is common. Dan North has mentioned it in some of his older talks. Once you've written a lot of code using TDD you have learned what good, testable code actually looks like; quite unlike the ideal pattern/by-the-book/I-was-taught obsession. With the experience from TDD you can make great decisions - "If I do this it will be clean and testable. If I do this other thing instead that will be harder". The problem is that most people that starts out with TDD thinks it gets in their way and therefore TDD sucks, not realizing that it's trying to tell you something about the code.
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