Don’t Write All Your Tests Upfront
I find that different people have different ideas about what test-driven development really means. Some people think that test-driven development is about writing all of your tests after you write your code. To me, that is not test driven development. I call that test-after development and when we do TDD we write our tests before …
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Read MoreIt’s Not a Test of You Write it First
Although I am an advocate of test-first development, I also acknowledge that there’s a bit of a conundrum in the name test-first development. How can you write a test for something before you write the something? There’s nothing yet to test so how can it be a test? The answer to that question is that …
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Read MoreWhy Write the Test First
As you can probably tell by reading my blog, I am a proponent of TDD. But my enthusiasm for test-first development took a long time coming. It took me a long time to convince myself that TDD had great value and was worth the effort. Software developers already have too much to do and not …
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Read MoreOn Implementation Independence
I’ve been looking forward to writing this blog post for a while because I’ve been misinterpreted in the past on what I mean by implementation independence. And this is entirely understandable because the concept is slippery and difficult for people to easily grasp. Yet I feel implementation independence is one of the most important concepts …
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Read MoreContinuous Integration Requires the Right Tests
I see continuous integration as a “gateway practice” because it will lead to other Agile practices. Continuous integration and automating the process of validating release candidates represents a large part of the Agile vision realized. We spend nearly half of our time and effort integrating and testing code. Many companies do this manually, which makes …
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