>It's tempting to be dismissive of modern development practices (TDD, for example) using the argument that a lot of great software was written before it existed

>It's tempting to be dismissive of modern development practices (TDD, for example) using the argument that a lot of great software was written before it existed. It is even more tempting to be dismissive because there is no evidence to support the notion than TDD is in any way helpful, and there is evidence that suggests it does not help at all.