The Complex Relationship Between Software Developers & Test Code

I was preparing yet another session about Test Driven Development (TDD) (I do quite a lot of these as part of my position) and I thought it would be a good idea to allure the audience at the beginning by showing some statistics.

The two main questions that interested me the most were:

1. As software developers, how would we describe our feelings towards writing test code (unit/component/integration tests)?
2. What percentage of software developers actually practice test first approach such as TDD/BDD (Test/Behavior Driven Development)?

I find the first question interesting because in recent years, in most companies, software professionals have come to the conclusion that manual QA is simply not…