Test-Driven Development (TDD) Methodology

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A Test-Driven Development (TDD) Methodology is a agile software development methodology that involves test case creation before the actual software creation.



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2020

  • (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/test-driven_development Retrieved:2020-5-18.
    • Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: requirements are turned into very specific test cases, then the code is improved so that the tests pass. This is opposed to software development that allows code to be added that is not proven to meet requirements.

      American software engineer Kent Beck, who is credited with having developed or "rediscovered" the technique, stated in 2003 that TDD encourages simple designs and inspires confidence.

      Test-driven development is related to the test-first programming concepts of extreme programming, begun in 1999, but more recently has created more general interest in its own right.[1]

      Programmers also apply the concept to improving and debugging legacy code developed with older techniques.[2]

  1. Newkirk, JW and Vorontsov, AA. Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Press, 2004.
  2. Feathers, M. Working Effectively with Legacy Code, Prentice Hall, 2004

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