Test Driven Development: A Practical Guide (Coad): A Practical Guide: A Practical Guide - Softcover

Astels, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131016490 ISBN 13: 9780131016491

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2003

Synopsis

This book teaches programmers how to make Test Driven Development (TDD) work in their organization. TDD is unique because it forces the programmer to write tests for code before the code is actually written. This process is the reverse of how software testing has traditionally been conducted, but TDD ensures that software is produced more efficiently. A test-first mentality allows the programmer to define, specify, illustrate, limit, and drive the code, resulting in documented, tested, code that is as simple and lean as possible. The book also presents tools and techniques, and all major points are supported by numerous examples (including an entire project, end-to-end) and exercises.

About this title

About the Author

Dave Astels has close to twenty years' experience as a software developer in areas ranging from embedded environment control to intellectual property protection systems to electrical energy trading systems. For more than a decade, he has been working exclusively with object technology. He runs his own consulting company specializing in Extreme Programming and pervasive Java solutions. He is the co-author of A Practical Guide to extreme Programming (ISBN 0130674826).

From the Back Cover

Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide

David R. Astels

Foreword by Ron Jeffries

• The relentlessly practical TDD guide: real problems, real solutions, real code
• Includes a start-to-finish project written in Java and using JUnit
• Introduces TDD frameworks for C++, C#/.NET, Python, VB6, and more
• For every developer and project manager interested test-driven development

Make Test-Driven Development work for you!

Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide enables developers to write software that's simpler, leaner, more reliable... just plain better.

Now, there's a TDD guide focused on real projects, real developers, real implementation challenges, and real code.

Renowned agile development expert Dave Astels shows TDD at work in a start-to-finish project written in Java and using the JUnit testing framework. You'll learn how "test first" works, why it works, what obstacles you'll encounter, and how to transform TDD's promise into reality.

• o Relentlessly practical! Full of downloadable code examples, hands-on exercises, and a fully hyperlinked version of the "resources" appendix
• o Introduces powerful TDD tools and techniques--including key JUnit extensions, presented by their creators (Scott Ambler, Tim Bacon, Mike Bowler, Mike Clark, Bryan Dollery, James Newkirk, Bob Payne, Kay Pentacost, and Jens Uwe Pipka)
• o Covers refactoring, "programming by intention," mock objects, and much more
• o Discusses TDD frameworks for C++, C#/.NET, Python, VB6, Ruby, and Smalltalk
• o Introduces previously unpublished test-first techniques for GUI software
• o Contains appendices introducing eXtreme Programming and Agile Modeling
• o For all programmers and project managers

Read this book if you're ready to write code that's clearer, more robust, and easier to extend & maintain--in short, if you're ready to write better code!

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131016490
• ISBN 13: 9780131016491
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 582