Summary

Becoming a great practitioner of TDD takes great effort. It requires practice, experience, determination, and discipline.

Many people have tried TDD and failed. Some of them will conclude that TDD is broken. But I don’t believe it’s broken. It just takes effort and patience to get right.

But what is getting it right, anyway?

All software development techniques are subjective. Everything in this book is subjective; it is not the right way. It is a collection of techniques that I like to use, and that I have found success with. Other people have found success with other techniques.

The exciting part of TDD is not the black-and-white, strict form of the process; it is the grays in which we can define (and refine) a development process that works for us and our colleagues. The TDD cycle gives us just enough structure that we can find joy in fleshing it out with our rules and our own dogma.

I hope you have found this book valuable and enjoyable. There...