Does TDD lead to good design? [duplicate]
This question already has answers here: Why does TDD work? [closed] (19 answers) Closed 10 years ago. I’m in transition from “writing unit tests” state to TDD. I saw as Johannes Brodwall creates quite acceptable design from avoiding any of architecture phase before. I’ll ask him soon if it was real improvisation or he had […]
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Context:
About clean code
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Web API URI Schema Design
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