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Sustaining Test Driven Development

Thursday, February 25, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (GMT)

London, United Kingdom

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Steve Freeman and Nat Price are talking on Thrusday 25th Feb on Sustaining Test Driven Development, at JP Morgan, 125 London Wall, London, EC2Y 5AJ.

 

This talk is about the qualities we look for in test code that keep the development "habitable". We want to make sure the tests pull their weight by making them expressive, so that we can tell what's important when we read them and when they fail, and by making sure they don't become a maintenance drag themselves. We need to apply as much care and attention to the tests as we do to the production code (although the coding styles may differ). Difficulty in testing might imply that we need to change our test code, but often it's a hint that our design ideas are wrong and that we ought to change the production code. In practice, these qualities are all related to and support each other. Test-driven development combines testing, specification, and design into one holistic activity.