This week's been aaaallll about automated testing for me. On Monday, I attended Preston Codejo, looking at unit testing in Ruby. I was there as a Ruby novice, there were a couple of TDD novices, so some great discussion around the merits of TDD. My working week has been spent sneaking SpecFlow and acceptance testing into a new project at work, and yesterday I spent a few hours watching one of Uncle Bob's Clean Coders videos with some colleagues. As usual, my DRL posse had some really interesting thoughts around it - more discussion around the merits of testing followed.

And then there's a bit of discussion on Twitter about TDD not being the silver bullet some would tout it, I speak very highly of TDD as a practice. Some would describe me as a bit of a zealot, so in the interest of balance, I want to make a confession.

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