Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 470 pages
- Published by: Manning Publications October 12, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1932394850
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1932394856
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Product Description
In 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
About The Author
Lasse Koskela is a methodology specialist at Reaktor Innovations. He started promoting Agile methods in Finland in 2002, ramped up the local Agile Seminars in 2005, and has coached dozens of teams around Europe in agile methods and development practices such as test driven development.
Reader Reviews
I've just begun digging into Lasse Koskela's book, Test Driven, but it's already clear that this is the book I will recommend to existing Java programmers for a thorough coverage of TDD. (I'm pointing new Java programmers somewhere else, however. :-)) The text is very well written and engaging. The introductory material, getting developers up to speed on what TDD is and isn't, and how to do it well, is very patient yet not so slow that it's tedious. The book is well-rounded, and contains information that you're not going to find in the other books on TDD. For example, it includes a good introductory coverage to acceptance testing using FIT/FitNesse. It also includes some recommendations on multithreaded testing, and some practical discussion about the distinctions between unit and integration testing, and what's entailed. I think Koskela did a good job at surveying the current Java landscape and providing recommendations around the predominant tools/environments. I hope he's able to update the book in a couple years! Overall, the book has many useful tips throughout, and wraps up with a thorough discussion of what it will take to adopt TDD in an organization. So far it's one of the more enjoyable and useful tech books I've read this year.
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