My tests never failed.

What leprechaun whispered that in your ear? It wasn’t me. I don’t write tests. I have too much development to do. I do enough manual testing of real cases and failure cases and hand off to someone else. That’s the way I’ve worked for 30 years and the craziness I head from the TDD fanatics is, ummm, err, uhh, unconvincing.

I don’t like unit tests. Everywhere I’ve worked testing was a specialization for others with different skills. I was in QA five months at Microsoft for NT and then they made me a developer because I was learning too fast to be mired in QA. I wrote the installer for Cruiser (OS/2 3.0, later Windows NT) instead.

I might do unit tests if there wasn’t so much bullshit that came along with them. I’m not a team guy, I work solo, always have. I wrote and shipped two entire Microsoft products before I’d finished my third year employed in IT. We always had QA. I didn’t hand them garbage, I did enough testing, but unit tests? No thanks.

I’m tired of repeating myself and going in circles with you guys. I wrote this a few days ago. It’s my last word on this shit.

https://medium.com/me/stats/post/9a3287e75d90

I’m never doing TDD or Agile and my one contact with scrum convinced me it’s dumb as shit.
You’ve probably never had a job in IT where you could concentrate. You have no idea what it’s like. You go from meeting to meeting, you start your day with a status update with some idiot with “master” in his title, you think software is sports, you are totally alien to me.