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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

I recently finished Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide by Maurício Aniche , and I really liked it. I have been coding for a long time and I think I have been writing pretty good tests for the features I have implemented. The book apparently grew out of lecture notes from a course on software testing.

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TDD, Unit Testing and the Mainframe

DevOps.com

Unit testing is like exercise: Companies know it’s good for you and you should do it, but given their druthers, they’d rather avoid the effort and just get to the benefit. After all, making unit testing a standard practice in a company’s software development process is probably the […]. I wish I could say it’s otherwise.

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6 Talks We’re Excited to Hear This Year at the Kansas City Developer Conference

OverOps

Building Quality JavaScript With Test-Driven Development. Have you let testing fall to the wayside? This half-day intermediate-level workshop addresses and abolishes the frustration so often associated with Test-Driven Development. Wednesday at 8:00 AM | 2202. Creative Coding: An Introduction to Processing.

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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). In a Randori we work as a group trying to solve a small problem using TDD: There is one computer with the video output projected on a screen so all participants can see it. I also hear that we don't enough chance to practice TDD".

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

Test-Driven Development. It’s test-driven development, and it actually delivers these results. 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. Why TDD Works.

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TDD mistakes 2

Habitable Code

Back in 2014 I wrote a blog post listing three mistakes often made by folks who are new to test-driven development (TDD). Writing tests for invented requirements. We’re doing TDD, but we have no code to test; we have nothing to hang our first test on, so we need to invent something, fast!

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TDD Randori Workshop

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

To start the process off I seeded the work with a few tests (TestOneThrow(), TestTwoThrows(), testMutilpleFrames(), testMidFrame()) and a trivial amount of code to satisfy the problem. With one of the failing tests early on we had good example of why the parameter order matters in JUnit's asserts. What was your experience?