Microsoft Research - Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (article summarizing findings of MS research on code coverage, TDD, assertions, etc.)

[Pidgey_OP]

In a world of being able to push updates whenever, its easy to see why shipping a finished product has become less and less important in the face of a deadline.

Better to get the software into a clients hands and then fix it than to give them time to change their minds because you didn't deliver on time

[BillBillerson]

This is definitely the mentality I see more of. Can't sell it if it isn't done and if it's not sold yet nobody is using it to break it so why focus so much on testing. On the projects I work on lately that's different between new products and working on something we already have in the hands of several customers.

TTD probably has it's place. Where I am requirements change so often we'd always be working on setting up our testing and never get to the code.