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Not Using Test-First? You're Doing it Wrong.

Many teams are struggling with delivering modern software because they are not building with Test First principals. Test First gives us the assurance that we...

3 replies - 6994 views - 05/03/13 by Martin Hinshelwood in Articles

What is the #1 Benefit of TDD?

I was asked this question when I led a TDD open session at the Israeli Software Craftsmanship User Group. My answer: It makes you think before you write...

0 replies - 3858 views - 04/10/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles

TDD for Business Value

A New Hope Software Craftsmanship, SOLID principles, eXtreme Programming, the list of all the “best practice” guides I’ve learned over the years goes...

0 replies - 1699 views - 04/08/13 by Justin Bozonier in Articles

Do You Know Why You Are Testing?! (On The Principles Underlying TDD)

 Kent Beck in his recent post Functional TDD: A Clash of Cultures summarizes well the key principles and benefits that underlie test-driven...

0 replies - 2759 views - 11/06/12 by Jakub Holý in Articles

Unit Tests Don't Find Bugs: the Death of QA

Unit tests don't find bugs. They find regressions. This is a painful lesson I learned when I first started doing TDD (test-driven development), and...

22 replies - 23041 views - 10/27/12 by Shannon Behrens in Articles

Thoughts on the Zero Defect Mentality of TDD

Challenges that led me here Heated arguments at work regarding how much TDD is enough and how little is too little. How do we find common ground?An...

0 replies - 4539 views - 10/16/12 by Justin Bozonier in Articles

ATDD, TDD and BDD practices for Java Developers: a brand new training course

A recent study found that projects applying techniques such as Acceptance Test Driven Development and Test Driven Development deliverd 31% faster with 4...

0 replies - 793 views - 09/06/12 by John Ferguson Smart in Announcements

How to Take Unit Testing (and Test-Driving) Seriously

So we write some test code, then make it pass, and restart. If we have still some minutes in the current Pomodoro, let's refactor a bit and extract some...

0 replies - 11405 views - 08/21/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Unit and Integration Tests With Maven and JUnit Categories

IntroductionThis example shows how to split unit and integration tests using Maven and JUnit categories. It is especially useful for existing test suites and...

0 replies - 6928 views - 05/08/12 by John Dobie in Articles

Unit and Integration Tests With Maven and JUnit Categories

 This example shows how to split unit and integration tests using Maven and JUnit categories.It is especially useful for existing test suites and can be...

0 replies - 754 views - 05/02/12 by John Dobie in Announcements

Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef – A Book Review

0 replies - 14197 views - 03/22/12 by James Betteley in Book Reviews

Test-Driven Emergent Design vs. Analysis

Test-Driven Development has been my main workflow for software development in the last years. Its refinement, which I learn from GOOS is a double cycle applied...

0 replies - 9750 views - 03/15/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Test Driven Development without Tears

Every company that I worked for has its own method of testing, and I've gained a lot of experience in what works and what doesn't. At last, that stack of...

3 replies - 8621 views - 03/06/12 by Steve Hanov in Articles

Asynchronous and negative testing

The photograph describing this article is a temperature probe for checking, of course, temperature differentials. Test-Driven Development is a technique that...

0 replies - 6482 views - 03/06/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

The 7 habits of highly effective developers

The 7 habits of highly effective people is an influential and best-selling book which coined terms such as proactivitiy. I'm a developer by day, so I wondered...

0 replies - 44736 views - 02/21/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles