Agile Pain Relief

April 27, 2007 in Software Development by Mark Levison

Finished reading Kent’s book ("Test Driven Development: By Example"). Looking for some reading to take you to the next level. Try Jeremy Miller’s blog it is full of excellent writing on TDD:

Test Driven Development

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  TDD Design Starter Kit: It’s All about Assigning Responsibilities
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  TDD Design Starter Kit – State vs. Interaction Testing
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  TDD Design Starter Kit – Dependency Inversion Principle
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  TDD Design Starter Kit – Responsibilities, Cohesion, and Coupling
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  TDD Design Starter Kit – Static Methods and Singletons May Be Harmful
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  Succeed with TDD by designing with TDD
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  Unit Testing Business Logic without Tripping Over the Database
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  Haacked on TDD and Jeremy’s First Rule of TDD
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  Jeremy’s Second Law of TDD: Push, Don’t Pull
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  Achieve Better Results by following Jeremy’s Third Law of TDD: Test Small
  Before Testing Big – I think this is the most important lesson for
  making TDD work for you
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  How much design before unit testing, and how much design knowledge before
  TDD?
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  So How do You Introduce TDD into an Organization or Team?

Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control

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  Inversion of Control with the Plugin Pattern
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  What’s so great about Inversion of Control?
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  The Dependency Injection Pattern – What is it and why do I care?

Mock Objects

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  Mock Objects and Stubs: The Bottle Brush of TDD
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  Why and When to Use Mock Objects
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  Best and Worst Practices for Mock Objects
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  Mock Objects are your Friend

I just spent the last couple of hours reading the 150 pages I printed
out from his blog. Its an impressive body of work. N.B. Yes the
examples are all in C# but for the most part its not relevant the ideas
are portable across most languages.

BTW my absence this past week is largely due to the effort I put into preparing and giving a tutorial Introducing TDD.

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