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Stylistic critique of the article: Is it too much to ask that you enumerate your acronym at least once throughout the entire article? The acronym "TDD" appears 16 times throughout the article, and not once do we get "Test-driven development" spelled out.

I get that it's a technical blog, but "TDD" isn't exactly a household name. You can't utter it in the same breath as SSL or RSA and expect people to know what it means without context.

As a test (no pun intended), try reading the article with the premise that you have NO idea what "TDD" stands for. Can you reasonably infer it from the rest of the article?




What’s RSA?


It's an encryption algorithm... And a proper name, not an acronym¹, detracting from the GP's point.

1 - Ok, it's technically an acronym, with a meaning different from the thing it names.





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