You test first right? If not, you should. If you don't know why then Uncle Bob will tell you why and show you how!

In this hands-on course students learn Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Refactoring. This course alternates between lecture and exercise so that students can experience, first-hand, the practices and disciplines of these fundamental topics.

Topics

o Professionalism, Craftsmanship, and Clean Code.

o Code Smells.

o De-odorizing code by using refactorings

o Unit testing, and Test Driven Development

o Design Patterns that facilitate testing and refactoring.

Who will benefit?

o This course is for Java, .NET, or C++ developers who want to learn, or sharpen, the skills of TDD and Refactoring.

Learning Outcomes

o Understand how to improve code without risking breakage.

o The ability to create automated test suites that run quickly.

o How to keep the code running at all times.

o How to use XUnit (JUnit, NUnit, CppUTest).

o Facility with Test Doubles such a Mocks, Fakes, and Stubs.

o Identification and remediation of code smells.

o A disciplined and practical approach to software development.

Prerequisites

Must know Java, C#, or C++.

Topics Schedule:

Week 1 - 21 April 2021

The Three Laws

The Stack

Week 2 - 28 April

Bowling

Prime Factors - Specificity & Transformations

Week 3 - 5 May

Test Design

Video Store

Week 4 - 12 May

Mocking & Patterns

Week 5 - 19 May

The Big Picture

The webinar begins Wednesday, April 21 at 10am CST for 2 hours and repeats every Wednesday for 5 weeks.

Webinars are on Zoom.

Are you worried you might miss a date?

All webinars will be recorded and available for registrants.