The Tough Questions About Testing

Published August 25th, 2010 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

Unit testing is a part of Test-Driven Development, but TDD is not only about Unit testing. In TDD, you usually write tests before you write any application code, and these test serve as documentation. However, Behavior-Driven development is a less well-defined term. Some contrast BDD and TDD while others say that they’re they are like two sides of the same coin. Bob Silverberg discusses Test-Driven Development and Unit testing and says that the two techniques sometimes get confused with one another

Video source: Dzone.com

Test-Driven Development – From Painful to (Near) Zero Friction

Published August 17th, 2010 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

Matt Honeycutt doesn’t like development friction and especially testing friction. Over the last several years, his approach to test-driven development and the style of test cases he creates have changed drastically in an effort to eliminate testing frication. In these screencasts, he uses TDD to implement a class in RageFeed. Starting with very coarse, high-friction unit tests, they will show you how you can gradually reduce the friction by creating better tests. Finally, you will see how easy it is to create clean, readable, specification-style tests in RageFeed today.

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Sustainable Test-Driven Development

Published July 7th, 2010 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

Steve Freeman proposes advice to write good tests that make development easier avoiding adding code that is hard to maintain. This presentation covers: test readability, complex test data, test diagnostics and test flexibility.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Sustainable-Test-Driven-Development

Learning TDD through Test-first Teaching

Published July 5th, 2010 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

How to get started with TDD? Test-First Teaching is an innovative teaching approach that is gaining widespread adoption. Sarah Allen talks about how she teaches Ruby and Rails through a test-first approach. She demonstrates test-first teaching and then discuss how to turn the corner from simply making tests pass to how to use a test-first approach to software design.

Video Producer: East Bay Ruby Meetup Group

Test-driven development in Flex

Published May 25th, 2010 Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

This presentation will demonstrate how to implement user stories taking a test-first approach and how to set up a continuous build.

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