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    Agile has a much greater chance of succeeding with automated testing to back it up. I've be forced to apply Agile without tests before and it's a trap. It's just a convenient way to accumulate technical debt faster than before. Commented May 30, 2016 at 18:42
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    TDD isn't necessarily the only practice that takes you there. It is a common one, though. Personally, I find BDD to be a more pragmatic approach. Commented May 30, 2016 at 18:44
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    "Agile has a much greater chance of succeeding with automated testing to back it up": so do non-agile projects, for that matter. I think automated testing is rather orthogonal to the methodology used: it makes you more confident that your code is correct and helps you to keep it clean. Commented May 31, 2016 at 5:21
  • By the way this question mixed unit test and TDD you can have unit test without TDD. Commented Apr 26, 2017 at 14:53
  • Reading the answers here, I'm surprised how much things have changed since I learned agile in the mid 00s. TDD and pair programming were considered the ESSENTIAL agile practices to maintain high quality code at a high pace. Commented Sep 18, 2019 at 21:23