I have used TDD professionally in several development teams. It's useful in the right team. TDD works well when you are not too dogmatic about it. As with everything, you need people in the team that are experienced enough to know when and where. I think the same is true for any tool, coding standard, best practice or what have you. You have to know when to deviate.
I've also held entry courses at university level teaching introductory programming. I believe that TDD can be a good tool teaching programming. Students tend to sit down and write a complete program and then start debugging. TDD teaches them to write small bits at a time and test as they go.
I have used TDD professionally in several development teams. It's useful in the right team. TDD works well when you are not too dogmatic about it. As with everything, you need people in the team that are experienced enough to know when and where. I think the same is true for any tool, coding standard, best practice or what have you. You have to know when to deviate.
I've also held entry courses at university level teaching introductory programming. I believe that TDD can be a good tool teaching programming. Students tend to sit down and write a complete program and then start debugging. TDD teaches them to write small bits at a time and test as they go.