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Improving Application Quality Using Test-Driven Development (TDD)

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By Craig Murphy, published on 02 Jul 2007
Page 5 of 5
  1. Introduction
  2. Getting Started
  3. Adding Functionality
  4. Smells
  5. Resources

Resources

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExponentialCostCurve

[2] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/testdrivendevelopment

[3] http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet

[4] http://www.craigmurphy.com

[5] http://cgi.bramwell.plus.com/krblog/2005/02/test_driven_is.html

[6] http://www.testing.com/cgi-bin/blog/2003/08/21#agile-testing-project-1

[7] http://www.adaptionsoft.com/tddapg_xunit.html

[8] http://xprogramming.com/software.htm

Slide-deck accompanying this article:
  http://www.craigmurphy.com/bug/tdd/13Jul2004/TDDIntro.zip

Examining the Cost of Change, Scott Ambler:
  http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/costOfChange.htm

Books:

Test-Driven Development: By Example, Kent Beck,
Addison-Wesley, 2003, ISBN 0-321-14653-0

test-driven development: A Practical Guide, Dave Astels,
Prentice-Hall/Pearson Education, 2003, ISBN 0-13-101649-0
(reviewed here: http://www.craigmurphy.com/bug/tdd/review.htm)

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Martin Fowler,
Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0-201-48567-2

Comments

  1. Mickey Puri
    05 Sep 2009 at 19:25

    Great article Craig. Well written.

    One slight amend however, I believe Setup / Teardown attributes are run once before / after each test, and the SetUpFixture / TearDownFixture attributes are called once for the TestFixture class at creation / distruction.

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  3. Manika chakrborty
    07 Aug 2007 at 18:28
    This article is very well documented for a person like me who is new in test driven development. Thanks.
  4. Developer Fusion Bot
    01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

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