TDD and agile have been an effort at breaking an old must have for code which was: ISO9001; the code should behave according to the plan, and if they don't conform, plan must be revised if the tests failed. The Plan Do Check Act Mantra.
Now, they find themselves facing the consequences of not respecting the expectation of the customers and they whine because "it was not applied correctly, because no one cared".
So now, they reformalize exactly the so "rigid" ISO9001 they were trying to throw down.
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TDD and agile have been an effort at breaking an old must have for code which was: ISO9001; the code should behave according to the plan, and if they don't conform, plan must be revised if the tests failed. The Plan Do Check Act Mantra. Now, they find themselves facing the consequences of not respecting the expectation of the customers and they whine because "it was not applied correctly, because no one cared".
So now, they reformalize exactly the so "rigid" ISO9001 they were trying to throw down.
What an irony.