There is something ironic about an article that begins: When I hear someone start advocating Test-Driven Development as the One True Programming Methodology, that's a red flag, and I start to assume you're either a shitty (or inexperienced) programmer, and carries on to say that The whole concept of Test-Driven Development is hocus, and embracing it as your philosophy, criminal. To summarize, the author seems to have…
I'll be honest and say the article started with the most inane troll about people who run their own mail servers and have beards, and was quickly changed when I realized people weren't reading beyond that ;-) Clearly my sense of humour needs work!
Well, I for one thought it funny (read your post via zite at first), and the rest of your article was a nice take on the TDD philosophy and it's adherents. It should merely be another tool in one's tool chest. Maybe a less confrontational headline would have produced a more measured response.