Test-Driven Development: Extensive Tutorial

Course overview

This ebook is an attempt to create open-source extensive tutorial on Test-Driven Development (TDD). It is and always will be available free of charge.

7 parts
54 chapters
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Part 1

Front Matter3 chapters

Begin part
  1. Dedications

  2. Thanks!

  3. About code examples

Part 2

Part 1: Just the basics12 chapters

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  1. Motivation – the first step to learning TDD

  2. The essential tools

  3. It’s not (only) a test

  4. Statement-first programming

  5. Practicing what we have already learned

  6. Sorting out the bits

  7. How to start?

  8. How is TDD about analysis and what does “GIVEN-WHEN-THEN” mean?

  9. What is the scope of a unit-level Statement in TDD?

  10. Developing a TDD style and Constrained Non-Determinism

  11. Specifying functional boundaries and conditions

  12. Driving the implementation from Specification

Part 3

Part 2: Object-Oriented World16 chapters

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  1. On Object Composability

  2. Telling, not asking

  3. The need for mock objects

  4. Why do we need composability?

  5. Web, messages and protocols

  6. Composing a web of objects

  7. When are objects composed?

  8. How does a sender obtain a reference to a recipient (i.e. how connections are made)?

  9. Where are objects composed?

  10. Interfaces

  11. Protocols

  12. Classes

  13. Object Composition as a Language

  14. Value Objects

  15. Value object anatomy

  16. Aspects of value objects design

Part 4

Part 3: TDD in Object-Oriented World17 chapters

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  1. Mock Objects as a testing tool

  2. Test-first using mock objects

  3. Test-driving at the input boundary

  4. Test-driving at the input boundary – a retrospective

  5. Test-driving object creation

  6. Test-driving object creation – a retrospective

  7. Test-driving application logic

  8. Test-driving value objects

  9. Reaching the web of objects boundaries

  10. What’s inside the object?

  11. Design smells visible in the Specification

  12. THIS IS ALL I HAVE FOR NOW. WHAT FOLLOWS IS RAW, UNORDERED MATERIAL THAT’S NOT YET READY TO BE CONSUMED AS PART OF THIS TUTORIAL

  13. Mock objects as a design tool

  14. Guidance of test smells

  15. Revisiting topics from chapter 1

  16. Maintainable mock-based Statements

  17. Refactoring mock code

Part 5

Part 4: Application architecture4 chapters

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  1. On stable/architectural boundaries

  2. Ports and adapters

  3. What goes into application?

  4. What goes into ports?

Part 6

Part 5: TDD on application architecture level2 chapters

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  1. Designing automation layer

  2. Further Reading

Part 7

Notes0 chapters

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