Re: Trends in Code Quality

[Kirrily Robert]

I'm with Aristotle.  I think it's an urge that's come out of the  
development community -- specifically, *certain* development  
communities -- rather than from an end-user desire for quality.  Many  
of the best -tested pieces of software are the infrastructure type  
things that only developers ever really know about, and functional  
testing ("does this software do what I want it to?") is far less  
common than unit testing at the API level.

In my experience developers latch on to test-driven development like  
a crack habit because once they get into the swing of it, it really  
is a very effective, stress-reducing way to work.

K.