--- title: The Most Effective TDD | daily.dev description: David Rodenas: There is a Wrong TDD, and a Good TDD. The GoodTDD focuses on a kind of test that drives all the development, reduces time wasted in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-effective-tdd-jcgfiskwe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Most Effective TDD | daily.dev og:description: David Rodenas: There is a Wrong TDD, and a Good TDD. The GoodTDD focuses on a kind of test that drives all the development, reduces time wasted in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-effective-tdd-jcgfiskwe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JCGfisKwe.png og:image:alt: The Most Effective TDD og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Most Effective TDD **[gitconnected](https://daily.dev/sources/gc)** · 7 min read · 13 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary David Rodenas: There is a Wrong TDD, and a Good TDD. The GoodTDD focuses on a kind of test that drives all the development, reduces time wasted in communication between roles, and improves leadership. The Wrong TDC focuses on testing, and overlooks the rest. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@yschepens** · 0 upvotes > First, thank you for the time you took to write this article. The definition you give to "Good TDD" is relatively near to "BDD" (Behaviour Driven Development if you didn't know). Actually, the two have not the same role on code maintenability and relialibity. Anyway, I prefer start with BDD for almost all young developers, which give better results. After, for purist, BDD should implement with Gherkin but you can apply the same rules with all "Unit tests" tools. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#business](https://daily.dev/tags/business), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-effective-tdd-jcgfiskwe) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Most Effective TDD","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-effective-tdd-jcgfiskwe","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-effective-tdd-jcgfiskwe"},"datePublished":"2021-11-07T20:14:18.498Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T04:57:55.185Z","description":"David Rodenas: There is a Wrong TDD, and a Good TDD. 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The definition you give to “Good TDD” is relatively near to “BDD” (Behaviour Driven Development if you didn’t know). Actually, the two have not the same role on code maintenability and relialibity. Anyway, I prefer start with BDD for almost all young developers, which give better results. After, for purist, BDD should implement with Gherkin but you can apply the same rules with all “Unit tests” tools.","datePublished":"2021-11-08T13:51:32.081Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/JCGfisKwe#c-y4SvuKeKd","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Yann Schepens","url":"https://daily.dev/yschepens","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1357689?v=4"}}]} ```