alt Hacker NewsI've been able to encode Outside-in Test Driven Development into a repeatable workflow. Claude Code follows it to a T, and I've gotten great results. I've written about it more here, and created a repo people can use out of the box to try it out:
https://www.joegaebel.com/articles/principled-agentic-softwa... https://github.com/JoeGaebel/outside-in-tdd-starter
Thanks for sharing!
> When asking Claude Code to write tests, I find they are inevitably coupled to implementation details, mockist, brittle, and missing coverage.
Interestingly, I haven't noticed any of that so far, using Claude Code on a new-ish project (couple 10k loc). However, I also went out of my way in my CLAUDE.md to instruct it to write functional code, avoid side effects / push side effects to the shell (functional core, imperative shell), avoid mocks in tests, etc. etc.