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AoAD2 Practice: Fast, Reliable Tests

James Shore

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. With TDD, you run the tests as often as one or two times every minute. If they don’t, you won’t be able to get feedback within 1-5 seconds, and that’s crucial for the TDD loop to work effectively. Use Broad Tests Only as a Safety Net. Buy it now!

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. Done well, TDD eliminates an entire class of programming errors. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. TDD is difficult to add to legacy codebases.

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Misconceptions with Test Driven Development

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import Figure from '@/components/global/figure.astro'; import TestXs from 'src/content/blog/misconceptions-with-test-driven-development/images/test-xs.jpg'; In the past few weeks I've heard several misconceptions raised about Test Driven Development: Does TDD really work? TDD isn't useful for helping to design the architecture of programs.

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. It turns out to be a net gain, resulting in higher quality results for less cost and time. Although mistakes are inevitable—TDD alone has programmers correcting mistakes every few minutes—most of them are short-lived. Your feedback is appreciated!

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AoAD2 Practice: Incremental Design

James Shore

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. As “A TDD Example” on p.XX Refactorings occur every few minutes, during the “Refactoring” step of the TDD cycle. When TDD is performed well, the design of individual modules and classes is beautiful: they’re simple, elegant, and convenient to use.