Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck)) - Softcover

Freeman, Steve; Pryce, Nat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321503627 ISBN 13: 9780321503626

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2009

Synopsis

Foreword by Kent Beck

 

"The authors of this book have led a revolution in the craft of programming by controlling the environment in which software grows.” --Ward Cunningham

 

“At last, a book suffused with code that exposes the deep symbiosis between TDD and OOD. This one's a keeper.” --Robert C. Martin

 

“If you want to be an expert in the state of the art in TDD, you need to understand the ideas in this book.”--Michael Feathers

 

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is now an established technique for delivering better software faster. TDD is based on a simple idea: Write tests for your code before you write the code itself. However, this "simple" idea takes skill and judgment to do well. Now there's a practical guide to TDD that takes you beyond the basic concepts. Drawing on a decade of experience building real-world systems, two TDD pioneers show how to let tests guide your development and “grow” software that is coherent, reliable, and maintainable.

 

Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce describe the processes they use, the design principles they strive to achieve, and some of the tools that help them get the job done. Through an extended worked example, you’ll learn how TDD works at multiple levels, using tests to drive the features and the object-oriented structure of the code, and using Mock Objects to discover and then describe relationships between objects. Along the way, the book systematically addresses challenges that development teams encounter with TDD--from integrating TDD into your processes to testing your most difficult features. Coverage includes

 

·   Implementing TDD effectively: getting started, and maintaining your momentum

    throughout the project

·   Creating cleaner, more expressive, more sustainable code

·   Using tests to stay relentlessly focused on sustaining quality

·   Understanding how TDD, Mock Objects, and Object-Oriented Design come together

    in the context of a real software development project

·   Using Mock Objects to guide object-oriented designs

·   Succeeding where TDD is difficult: managing complex test data, and testing persistence

    and concurrency

 

About this title

Synopsis:

Summary Mock Objects is an approach to Test-Driven Development that changes the way programmers think about code. It encourages them to think about how objects interact with each other, rather than just how they work in isolation - as the founders of Object Oriented programming intended. Objects should be defined in terms of what they do, not what they are. Using Mock Objects with Test-Driven Development guides developers towards code with clearly focused objects and an emphasis on behavior over data - both features of good Object Oriented programming. This book has been written by two of the originators of the concept, who have developed and refined their understanding over years of practice on real projects. The book describes the basic concepts and shows how they fit into the development cycle. It also addresses the common misunderstandings and pitfalls that they have encountered. Author(s) Expertise Steve Freeman (UK) is a consultant with ThoughtWorks and has been involved in the XP community since before there were books. He has a PhD in Computer Science and degrees in Statistics and Music, and was one of the authors of the first Mock Object paper.Nat Pryce (UK) is an independent consultant with expertise in software design, software development process and practices.

He is also a research fellow at Imperial College. Nat is a developer of the jMock and nMock libraries for testdriven development. Audience This book is intended for people who are directly concerned with the writing of code: developers at various levels, technical leaders, development managers. They are expected to have experience with an OO language such as C# or Java. The CD/DVD/Web Site http://www.mockobjects.com/

About the Author:

Steve Freeman is an independent consultant specializing in Agile software development. A founder member of the London Extreme Tuesday Club, he was chair of the first XPDay and is a frequent organizer and presenter at international conferences. Steve has worked in a variety of organizations, from writing shrink-wrap software for IBM, to prototyping for major research laboratories. Steve has a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, and degrees in statistics and music. Steve is based in London, UK.

 

Nat Pryce has worked as a programmer, architect, trainer, and consultant in a variety of industries, including sports reportage, marketing communications, retail, telecoms, and finance. With a Ph.D. from Imperial College London, he has also worked on research projects and does occasional university teaching. An early adopter of Extreme Programming, he has written or contributed to several open source libraries that support Test Driven Development. He was one of the founding organizers of the London XPDay and regularly presents at international conferences. Nat is based in London, UK.

 

Freeman and Pryce were joint winners of the 2006 Agile Alliance Gordon Pask award.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0321503627
• ISBN 13: 9780321503626
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384