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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. Done well, TDD eliminates an entire class of programming errors. When used properly, TDD also helps you improve your design, documents the behavior of your code, enables refactoring, and guards against future mistakes. Why TDD Works.

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AoAD2 Practice: Fast, Reliable Tests

James Shore

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. Instead, create an infrastructure wrapper , also known as a gateway: a class or module that encapsulates the service and its network calls.

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Interview with Evgeny Predein – CEO of Apiumhub

Apiumhub

He has been one of the former practitioners of Agile Methodologies, particularly eXtreme Programming with a great experience in difficult practices like TDD, Continuous Integration, build pipelines and evolutionary design. The importance of marketing and networking. The importance of choosing the right co-founder.

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AoAD2 Practice: Incremental Design

James Shore

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. During TDD, navigators should also consider the wider scope.

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AI and Machine Learning in Test Automation

LaunchDarkly

I can validate the text, I can validate the network request, I can validate that the pixels are shown, the buttons are aligned, there’s so many things I can validate. So I know there’s people who likes TDD and actually that means that you write a test first and then you implement based on that, that’s great.

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Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language

James Shore

JavaScript and Node.js) TDD Lunch & Learn Screencast. Although broad integration tests can be added as a safety net, their failure indicates a gap in the main test suite. The test suite only executes “slow” code, such as network calls or file system requests, when that behavior is explicitly part of the unit under test.

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