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I agree with your view that TDD alone isn't enough. I suppose that by TDD you mean unit (micro) level TDD.

I use the term more broadly to include the BDD process - a form of requirements gathering which ensures (at least) that:

requirements are properly analised and backed by examples
every feature has an automated "done" flag which devs can use to know when the feature is implemented

Blaine Osepchuk • Sep 13 '19

I'd assume micro-level TDD as well but the authors didn't specify. BDD existed in 2011 (when the book was published) but just barely and it wasn't very popular yet.