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Bliki: TestDrivenDevelopment

Martin Fowler

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a technique for building software that guides software development by writing tests. The most common way that I hear to screw up TDD is neglecting the third step. Further Reading Kent's summary of the canonical way to do TDD is the key online summary.

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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Why do people apply TDD? What Are the Real Reasons for Doing TDD? Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers. After many years of doing TDD daily, I think part of the reason is that some people do not fully grasp the reasons behind TDD. TDD and the Values of XP.

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Article: How to Spread Technical Practices Like TDD in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). It’s not something that just happens by itself, and many of the “usual” ways of introducing change fail for TDD.

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Agile Book Club: Test-Driven Development (with Mike “GeePaw” Hill and J.B. Rainsberger)

James Shore

Test-Driven Development is one of the few truly new Agile ideas. In this session, we’re joined by two folks with decades of TDD experience: Mike “GeePaw” Hill and J. His video essay, TDD & The Lump of Coding Fallacy , is a great explanation of why TDD saves development time. About the Book Club.

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Agile Book Club: User Stories (with Bill Wake)

James Shore

Possibly more ink has been spilled on this topic than any other aspect of Agile. We’re joined by Bill Wake, an agile coach who is known for the INVEST acronym for user stories, the Arrange-Act-Assert TDD pattern, and for articles at xp123.com. About the Book Club. Reading: ?? Stories. ??

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Alternatives to Acceptance Testing

NeverFriday

James Shore, author of the book “The Art of Agile”, wrote an article that covers the alternatives to acceptance testing. Preventing Programming Errors with TDD. I would recommend getting his book too, The Art of Agile Development. Preventing Different Types of Errors. Preventing Design Errors.

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TDD Randori Session

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

We ran our first TDD Randori session at lunch today (approx 15 attendees). I was inspired by Dave Nicolette's session at Agile 2008 and used the Danilo Santo's paper on their Brazilian Coding Dojo as a guide. I also hear that we don't enough chance to practice TDD". Talk about the advantages of TDD were good.