I dealt with this a bunch. I think it’s a natural tendency of humans to hear a new idea and consider a simpler less nuanced version of it before they fully grasp it.
As an example. I was taught about object-calisthenics[1] in school. The lecturer treated a straw man version of it, and I thought about this like that for a while. What’s worse, when I later thought it was a good exercise and explained it to others I noticed I always have to reiterate multiple times that this set of rules is meant as an exercise of exploration, not a set of hard rules for whatever piece of code you are going to write next.
TDD is just so easy to turn into a straw man, and I think it has so many hardcore fans that makes it even worse to present the nuanced form of it.
As an example. I was taught about object-calisthenics[1] in school. The lecturer treated a straw man version of it, and I thought about this like that for a while. What’s worse, when I later thought it was a good exercise and explained it to others I noticed I always have to reiterate multiple times that this set of rules is meant as an exercise of exploration, not a set of hard rules for whatever piece of code you are going to write next.
TDD is just so easy to turn into a straw man, and I think it has so many hardcore fans that makes it even worse to present the nuanced form of it.
[1] https://williamdurand.fr/2013/06/03/object-calisthenics/