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[–] organicmolecules@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Depends. If I'm working in an existing system and I know what the shape of the thing I'm writing is, then I might write the test first and tdd it out as that process is usually a bit faster for me.

If I'm developing a new feature I'd probably spike out a solution and write an acceptance test to match it, then if I'm feeling pedantic I might throw away the spike code and tdd it back up from scratch but I haven't done that in a while now.

This all depends on the language and the abstraction layer I'm at.