How to handle “TDD does not work in real life!” during code katas

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How to handle “TDD does not work in real life!” during code katas.
Doing code katas to learn real-life TDD can at first look like a scam to many developers. Listening to understand, explaining the deliberate practice pedagogy behind code katas, and early mob programming sessions are three techniques to maintain a constructive mood during code katas.

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We haven’t really tried TDD on our projects. Only unit tests, test-after production code. We probably should start learning TDD.

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Moderate approach does it. People took it to extremes. It pays off to just analyze the parts where you need better coverage and more confidence, and work on them first.

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We do it mostly on the core/domain part of our application.

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