TDD column by Dave Astels
Dave Astel’s column on Borland Developer Network explores the world of Test-driven Development. http://bdn.borland.com/coadletter/testdrivendevelopment/ ...
FIT Acceptance Testing Framework
Ward Cunningham starts another trend! FIT uses tables to express tests. http://fit.c2.com/ Click [url=http://www.testdriven.com/search.php?query=fit+acceptance&andor=OR&mids%5B%5D=5&mids%5B%5D=7&mids%5B%5D=2&action=results&submit=Search]here[/url] to search for FIT-related content on testdriven.com. ...
Better Testing, Worse Quality? [PDF]
"If you want to improve the quality of the software, stop the problem at the source. Begin by looking at the requirements: most bugs are caused by a lack of agreement on the requirements, not by simple developer mistakes." In this set of slides taken from the 2001 International Conference On Software Management & Applications [...] ...
Test-Driven Development in Enterprise Integration Projects [PDF]
This paper examines the challenges of testing enterprise integration solutions and proposed a testing approach to tackle inherent complexities. This approach is accompanied by a framework that makes integration testing ...
Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
The subject matter of this book deals with solving the most challenging problems facing software developers, project managers, and software project leaders today. This comprehensive, pragmatic tutorial on Agile Development ...
The Craftsman series
In this step-by-step series, the hero, a TDD beginner, learns to understand, by trial and error, what it means to practice test-first and refactorings. An easy and clear introduction to ...
Industrial Logic, Inc.
Industrial Logic is a dedicated team of XP coaches and programmers who’ve worked on small, large and distributed XP projects in the U.S. and abroad, since the early days of ...
Industrial Logic Workshops
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a practice for efficiently evolving useful code. While its name implies that it’s mostly about testing, test-driven development is primarily about design: it keeps programmers focused ...
JUnit-addons Runner
Junit-addons Runner is a Junit runner that is especially targeted at integration tests, where external resources are too expensive to acquire before each test. Some of JUnit-addons Runner features include: ...
An Initial Investigation of Test Driven Development in Industry [PDF]
In our research, we ran a set of structured experiments with 24 professional pair programmers. One group developed code using TDD while the other a waterfall-like approach. Both groups developed ...
Test-driven development using Eclipse [SWF]
This viewlet shows the implementation of Kent Beck’s example from Contributing to Eclipse, in a clear, animated presentation. Author: Carlos E. Perez (blog) Published: February 2003 Format: Flash presentation See ...
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Besides an introduction to refactoring, this handbook provides a catalog of dozens of tips for improving code. The best thing about Refactoring is its remarkably clear presentation, along with excellent ...
Agile Development Conference, Salt Lake City
Agile Development Conference http://agiledevelopmentconference.com/ June 25-28 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Early registration discount through end of April. Registration deadline: May 31. Organized by Alistair Cockburn, author of Agile Software ...
Test-Driven Development by Example
When faced with a complex programming challenge, rare is the developer who can readily see how to begin or produce its solution. More often than not, such projects generate a ...
NetObjectives
Our goal is to help developers and development teams gain the skills, confidence, and clarity that will enable them to create better software with less cost, less suffering, and a ...
Programming Methodology (PHPUnit example)
Very roughly speaking, you usually have two choices when it comes to methodology. You can either use a "heavy" methodology with lots of design documents and procedures, or you can ...
JaTack: Java Acceptance testing Tool ACKronym
In XP, automatic testing of the produced software takes a central role in the development process. For unit tests, there are a multitude of freely available testing frameworks for many ...
Refactoring: A Conversation with Martin Fowler
Refactoring is about saying, "Let’s restructure this system in order to make it easier to change it." The corollary is that it’s pointless to refactor a system you will never ...
Martin Fowler: Continuous Integration
An important part of any software development process is getting reliable builds of the software. Despite it’s importance, we are often surprised when this isn’t done. Here we discuss the ...
Testing focus boosts XP
The abysmal quality of software has led to Extreme Programming (XP), a discipline for developing software that requires test-driven design, continuous testing and acceptance of constant change. As one application ...
The Test-First Stoplight
Extreme Programmers write tests before they write the corresponding production code. In "test-first programming," you start with a small test, then write just enough code to implement it, and continue ...
Working Effectively With Legacy Code [PDF]
The key to working effectively with legacy code is getting it to a place where it is possible to know that you are making changes one at a time. When ...
Polygenix White Paper on Object Substitution
Mock objects are a powerful and flexible mechanism for substituting an imposter as a parameter to the class under test. In many cases, however, the collaborations with the class under ...
The Need for Speed: Automating Acceptance Testing in an Extreme Programming Environment
Acceptance tests must go beyond functionality to determine whether the packages meet goals such as specified performance levels. Automating end-to-end testing from the customer point of view can seem as ...
Why We Refactored JUnit – The Story of an Open Source Endeavor
Artima SuiteRunner, a free, open source unit and conformance testing toolkit for Java, was released in late January. Find out why the authors felt the need to create Artima SuiteRunner ...