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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

Why should we care about design?

In the coding world, whether you are an expert or a beginner, there are some scenarios where code seems to be weird. You can't avoid a feeling that something is wrong with the code when reading it. You even occasionally wonder why the previous programmer implemented a specific method or a class in such a bad manner. This is because the same functionality can be implemented in a vast number of different ways, each of them being unique. With this big number of possibilities, which is the best one? The answer is that all of them are valid as they all achieve the goal. However, it is true that some considerations should be taken into account while finding better solutions. This is where design becomes important.

Design principles

The TDD philosophy encourages programmers to follow some principles and good practices that make code cleaner and more readable. As a result, our code becomes easy to understand and safe to modify in the future. Let's take...

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