TDD - Test Driven Development

Testing Basics

• What are Test Driven Development + Demo
• More than a Testing Technique
• Red Green Cycle
• Types of Testing, Testing in the Project Life Cycle
• Benefits of Unit Testing and TDD

Unit Testing

• Unit Testing with XUnit
• Test Fixtures & Assertions 

Advanced Testing

• Mocks and Mocking Frameworks
• Qualities of Good and Bad Tests
• Test Maintainability
• Design for Testability
• Introducing TDD to the Real World
• Working with Legacy Code
• TDD Principles
  • Test Transparency Principle
  • Test Dependencies Principle
• Using TDD to reduce Design & Code Smells
• Testing UI

Design Principles

• Open Close Principle
• Single Responsibility Principle
• Dependency Inversion Principle

Refactoring

• How To + Demo

Acceptance Tests

• Acceptance Tests as Executable Requirements Specification
• Using Fit and Fitnesse for Acceptance Tests
• Fit test fixtures:
  • ColumnFixture
  • ActionFixture
  • RowFixture
• The role of QA

Hands on Labs and Exercises