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Tests pretty much. Not a silver bullet for everything, but works for many cases.

Unless you're a 0.1% coder, your mental call graph can't handle every corner case perfectly anyway, so you need tests too.

>>theshr+(OP)
No one is saying you shouldn't write tests. But we are saying TDD is dumb.

Actually, for exactly the reasons you mention: I'm not dumb enough to believe I'm a genius. I'll always miss something. So I can't rely on my tests to ensure correctness. It takes deeper thought and careful design.