Test Driven Development – Deep Dive Workshop
By now Test Driven Development (TDD) is a well-known and appreciated practice exercised by many development teams around the globe.
Unlike the name suggests, TDD is not a testing technique but a development technique that results in cleaner, high-quality code. Implementing effective and useful TDD-ing is a complicated task that requires developers to have both discipline and familiarity with a set of test automation tools.
Now with AI code and test generation tools, it’s even more important to fit the tools with the process. Combining TDD and code generation, can bring both the quality and speed to the development.
This 1-day workshop explains the TDD as a design methodology, briefly introduces the tools, and then dives into complex issues of real-world problems: APIs, complex integrations, using the principles in legacy code, and more. It includes hands-on exercises (about 50% of the workshop’s duration). Attendees will practice the needed techniques to start testing both new and existing code.
The workshop is intended for: Software developers and software team leaders.
Workshop length: 1 day.
Workshop goals
Following the workshop, attendees will be able to:
- Break down requirements into test cases
- Use TDD to develop new code
- Use TDD on legacy code
- Refactor code to make it more testable
Workshop agenda
- Test Driven Development (TDD) as a design methodology
- TDD & BDD (behavior driven development)
- Incremental testing
- TDD in legacy code
- TDD using AI tools
- Abstracting dependencies
- Using adapters and facades
- Refactoring for testability as preparation for TDD
- Clean tests
- TDD best practices
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with unit testing is required. The basics can be covered in the Introduction to Unit Tesitng and TDD workshop.
- Attendees need to have their own laptops ready and download the exercises beforehand.
- The training materials are targeted to either Java, JavaScript, Python, C, C++, Go or C# developers.