J. B. Rainsberger – The World’s Best Intro to TDD

Join J. B. Rainsberger and learn whether test-driven development (TDD) will work for you. In addition to basic TDD training, this course unlocks some of the secrets of modular design from one of TDD’s master practitioners. Bring your laptop and be prepared to change the way you write software.

AudienceYou have had professional experience on at least one software project in Java, C#, Python or Ruby. You would like to know how to design software incrementally with test-driven development.

You will learn…

• how test-driven development can help you deliver software your users will love
• how test-driven development can help you earn revenue sooner on your software projects
• how to perform the steps of test-driven development
• the secrets of truly modular software design
• how to practise test-driven development and integrate it into your daily practice
• how to design effectively with interfaces
• how to test-drive a web user interface without having to deploy your application

Topics

• An introduction to test-driven development and the theory of constraints
• Realizing the promise of modular design with test-driven development
• A demonstration of the technique of test-driven development
• Exercise: test-drive a single-class design
• Making test-driven development a daily habit
• A demonstration of evolving an architecture with test-driven development
• Exercise: test-drive a multiple-class design
• Zero integration defects without integration tests
• A demonstration of evolving an architecture through interfaces
• Exercise: test-drive a multiple-class design with interfaces and test doubles
• Remaining questions and answers