Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI think this is a great explanation of a lot of the obvious pitfalls with "basic" TDD, and why so many people end up putting in a lot of effort with TDD without getting much return. I personally have kind of moved away from TDD over the years, because of some of these reasons: namely, that if the tests match the structure of the code too closely, changes to the organization of that code are incredibly painful because of the…
Totally agree about the dissonance with TDD and it always surprised me it wasn't discussed more when TDD was going through the hard sell stage. I guess my core problem is TDD only drives your design if you write quite granular tests but they then become barriers to further refactoring/redesign. However my current preferred approach (for anything non-trivial) is different to the authors. As he does I start out with outer-level acceptance-y tests, however those integration tests are then combined…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 271
- Total comments
- 138
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-27 | The Failures of "Intro to TDD"First breakout · Best thread | davemo | 169 | 84 |
| 2015-06-18 | The Failures of “Intro to TDD”Latest 20+ point return | joshtgreenwood | 100 | 54 |
| 2017-01-23 | The Failures of “Intro to TDD” | joshtgreenwood | 2 | 0 |