It is customary to think that in TDD we run ahead and just write tests. Not today, Spring will have to wait. Let’s break down the requirement into test cases, so we can understand them better. Buckle your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. We’ll translate the Read more…
Most TDD examples start out with a calculator. Ours will start here as well. But we’re not going to write a test for “2+2”. No sir, we’re going to test drive the calculator display. But what does it actually do? We’re going to create a simple calculator as a web Read more…
I’ve been working with teams who use Spring as the basis of their programming for some time now. Spring, many times as a microservices development and runtime framework. Luckily (or not) they want to incorporate TDD (Test driven development) into their development, but they bump into all kinds of problems. Read more…
He said: “I asked all my friends, and none of them likes TDD”. This one I haven’t heard before, although I suspect I should have at some point. Like any practice, TDD has a social side. I told him to find new friends, which he conveniently ignored. He then continued: Read more…
One of the exercises I love to do in my TDD classes is to build a lightsaber in TDD. (Yes, of course that’s how they’re made). In the exercise, I go through listing all kinds of features and use cases, and the first test we usually write is for turning Read more…
