TDD Is The Best Design Technique
1,798Test Driven Development is one of the most profound ways to improve the quality of your code.
This is not just in the simplistic sense of “we tested it works” but also the way that testing very strongly encourages us, if not forces us, to create testable code, and the hallmarks of testable code are the same as the hallmarks of high-quality code. So what is TDD and how is it so helpful?
In this episode, Dave Farley, author of “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” describes how TDD forces us to make better design choices. How to apply a BDD version of TDD, focusing on externally visible behaviour, strengthens the approach to ensure your tests are more clearly separate from the code, but still guide its design, so not TDD vs BDD, but BDD reinforcing TDD.
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