Product DescriptionIn test driven development, you first write an executable test of what your application code must do. Only then do you write the code itself and, with the test spurring you on, you improve your design. In acceptance test driven development (ATDD), you use the same technique to implement product features, benefiting from iterative development, rapid feedback cycles, and better-defined requirements. TDD and its supporting tools and techniques lead to better software faster.
Test Driven brings under one cover practical TDD techniques distilled from several years of community experience. With examples in Java and the Java EE environment, it explores both the techniques and the mindset of TDD and ATDD. It uses carefully chosen examples to illustrate TDD tools and design patterns, not in the abstract but concretely in the context of the technologies you face at work. It is accessible to TDD beginners, and it offers effective and less well known techniques to older TDD hands.
What's Inside
Learn hands-on to test drive Java code
How to avoid common TDD adoption pitfalls
Acceptance test driven development and the Fit framework
How to test Java EE components-Servlets, JSPs, and Spring Controllers
Tough issues like multithreaded programs and data access code
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Excellent book on TDD in Java
This book is an great resource for Java developers wanting to get started on TDD. It covers the majority of tools and techniques available, along with useful tips and best practices.
The first part is already worth the book's price. The author presents TDD and its benefits, shows how it works with a lot of coding, and ends it with an excellent chapter on concepts and unit tests design patterns. By the end of it you'll feel eager to, at least, give the practice a shot.
The book proceeds ... Read More
Rating: - Awesome reference for TDD
Great book. I've read Kent Beck's book, but his book is a bit dated these days. I found Test Driven to be a nice, timely refresh of the TDD and refactoring topic. I've done some mentoring and teaching on TDD and refactoring lately and I've been evangelizing this book to my students/participants. Well worth the money.
Rating: - test first or last - tools and techniques for testing well
"Test Driven" is geared toward Java developers interested in writing better JUnit tests. Despite the title, it is useful whether you want to write test first or test last.
The first part of the book covers the softer aspects of testing such as how to decide what tests to write first and spikes. The rest of the book covers writing tests for common Java components including servlets, data access code and Swing. Examples were for things that we frequently want to test. They included ... Read More
Rating: - Maybe the best book I have ever read
This book is one of the best books I have ever read. It's easy to understand and well-written. It dives deep into TDD without complicating things, and shows with good examples why you should do TDD.
Highly recommended.
Rating: - Very harmful approach
When I purchased the book "Test Driven" by Lasse Koskela I hoped to see suggestions, patterns, and tools for continuous testing during the development cycle. It is not a secret for an experienced developer that postponing the testing phase until the design and implementation are complete is very dangerous. Every real world developer is well aware that implementation quite often reveals design shortcomings, while testing does the same for implementation, and less frequently for design deficiencies. Refactoring ... Read More
- Excellent book on TDD in Java
- Very harmful approach
