The document introduces Test Driven Development (TDD). TDD is a software development process that relies on short development cycles where you write an automated test first, then code to pass that test, and refactor as needed. The key benefits of TDD are that it encourages simple design, validates correctness, and drives the design of a program in a modular way. TDD best practices include writing self-explanatory test assertions, keeping tests small and isolated, integrating code frequently, and following the TDD mantra and rhythm of red-green-refactor.

1. Test Driven Development
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2. Agenda
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Intro to TDD
TDD by example
Conclusions

3. Intro
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4. What is TDD
Developed (or rediscovered) by Kent Beck to encourage
simple design and inspire confidence.
Related to the test-first programming concepts of eXtrem
Programming
A software development process that relies on the
repetition of a very short development cicle
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5. The golden rules
Never write model code
unless you have a test that
requires it
Write new code only if an
automated test has failed
Eliminate duplication
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6. What's my motivation?
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7. Managing fear
“I have a problem and I
can't see the end from
the beginning”
Fear says you to be
carefull
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8. TDD mantra
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9. Benefits
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Programmers who wrote more tests tended to be more productive
Programmers using TDD rarely felt the need to invoke a debugger
TDD offers validation of correctness and drives the design of a program
TDD offers the ability to take small steps
Even if more code is required, the total code implementation time could be
shorter
TDD can lead to more modularized, flexible and extensible code
Because no more code is written than necessary to pass a failing test case, tests
tend to cover every code path.

10. TDD by example
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13. Conclusions
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14. TDD Best Practices I
Work only on one test at a time
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15. TDD Best Practices II
Write test assertions
self-explanatory
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16. TDD Best Practices III
Same structure for tests and
source code
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17. TDD Best Practices IV
Keep tests small
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18. TDD Best Practices V.I
integrate your code every few unit test and never
leave broken tests
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If you are working in a team...

19. TDD Best Practices V.II
end every day with a broken test
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If you are working alone...

20. Summary
TDD Mantra
TDD rhythm
Value Object pattern
Information Hiding principle
DRY principle
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21. Bibliography and references
Kent Beck – Test-Driven Development by Example, The Addison-Wesley Signature Series
Jason Gorma – Agile Java Development: Test-Driven Development using JUnit and Eclipse
WardsWiKi - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TestDrivenDevelopment
WardsWiKi - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DontRepeatYourself
www.testdriven.com
www.junit.com
www.bigthink.it/php/test-driven-development-prima-i-test-poi-il-codice
www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html
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22. Thank you for your attention!!!
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