Test Driven Development (TDD) has been one of the most adopted agile practice. It has bring back the importance of unit testing, but also mostly remind that people have to think about what their code really want to achieve before writing it.
Test-driven development that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes an (initially failing) automated test case, then produces the minimum amount of code to pass that test, and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards. Kent Beck, who is credited with having developed or 'rediscovered' the technique, stated in 2003 that TDD encourages simple designs and inspires confidence. However, how simple this might appears, it is not easy to perform this approach successfully on the long term.
Two interesting articles published in the Methods & Tools free software development magazine might help you to do this. Test Driven Development (TDD) Traps by Jakub Nabrdalik presents all the issues that a agile software developer might face when trying to apply TDD and explains how to overcome them. Writing Testable Code by Isa Goksu explain how to write a code that will be easy to test... and then easy to refactor. This two articles are a good read for every software developer that believes in the power of unit testing to achieve quality in software code.
Test-driven development that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes an (initially failing) automated test case, then produces the minimum amount of code to pass that test, and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards. Kent Beck, who is credited with having developed or 'rediscovered' the technique, stated in 2003 that TDD encourages simple designs and inspires confidence. However, how simple this might appears, it is not easy to perform this approach successfully on the long term.
Two interesting articles published in the Methods & Tools free software development magazine might help you to do this. Test Driven Development (TDD) Traps by Jakub Nabrdalik presents all the issues that a agile software developer might face when trying to apply TDD and explains how to overcome them. Writing Testable Code by Isa Goksu explain how to write a code that will be easy to test... and then easy to refactor. This two articles are a good read for every software developer that believes in the power of unit testing to achieve quality in software code.
