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Test-Driven Java Development

You're reading from   Test-Driven Java Development Invoke TDD principles for end-to-end application development with Java

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987429
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Why Should I Care for Test-driven Development? 2. Tools, Frameworks, and Environments FREE CHAPTER 3. Red-Green-Refactor – from Failure through Success until Perfection 4. Unit Testing – Focusing on What You Do and Not on What Has Been Done 5. Design – If It's Not Testable, It's Not Designed Well 6. Mocking – Removing External Dependencies 7. BDD – Working Together with the Whole Team 8. Refactoring Legacy Code – Making it Young Again 9. Feature Toggles – Deploying Partially Done Features to Production 10. Putting It All Together Index

Chapter 7. BDD – Working Together with the Whole Team

 

"I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits."

 
 --Kent Beck

Everything we did until now is related to techniques that can be applied only by developers for developers. Customers, business representatives, and other parties that are not capable of reading and understanding code were not involved in the process.

TDD can be much more than what we did until now. We can define requirements, discuss them with the client, and get agreement as to what should be developed. We can use those same requirements and make them executable so that they drive and validate our development. We can use ubiquitous language to write acceptance criteria. All this, and more, is accomplished with a flavor of TDD called behavior-driven development (BDD).

We'll develop a Books Store application using a BDD approach. We'll define acceptance criteria in English, make the implementation...

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