Agree with all of this, and I've made the same arguments myself. That's one reason code coverage metrics are of limited use -- they can't measure the quality of

Agree with all of this, and I've made the same arguments myself. That's one reason code coverage metrics are of limited use -- they can't measure the quality of the tests. I wasn't intending to diminish the role of QA (essential) or assert that TDD cures all (doesn't), just that The Black Team weren't doing TDD.