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Professional Test Driven Development with C#: Developing Real World Applications with TDD by James Bender
Hands-on guidance to creating great test-driven development practice
Test-driven development (TDD) practice helps developers recognize a well-designed application, and encourages writing a test before writing the functionality that needs to be implemented. This hands-on guide provides invaluable insight for creating successful test-driven development processes. With source code and examples featured in both C# and .NET, the book walks you through the TDD methodology and shows how it is applied to a real-world application. You’ll witness the application built from scratch and details each step that is involved in the development, as well as any problems that were encountered and the solutions that were applied.
Clarifies the motivation behind test-driven development (TDD), what it is, and how it works
Reviews the various steps involved in developing an application and the testing that is involved prior to implementing the functionality
Discusses unit testing and refactoring
Professional Test-Driven Development with C# shows you how to create great TDD processes right away.
Test-driven development (TDD) practice helps developers recognize a well-designed application, and encourages writing a test before writing the functionality that needs to be implemented. This hands-on guide provides invaluable insight for creating successful test-driven development processes. With source code and examples featured in both C# and .NET, the book walks you through the TDD methodology and shows how it is applied to a real-world application. You’ll witness the application built from scratch and details each step that is involved in the development, as well as any problems that were encountered and the solutions that were applied.
Clarifies the motivation behind test-driven development (TDD), what it is, and how it works
Reviews the various steps involved in developing an application and the testing that is involved prior to implementing the functionality
Discusses unit testing and refactoring
Professional Test-Driven Development with C# shows you how to create great TDD processes right away.
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First published May 9, 2011
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May 11, 2019
"TDD can be intimidating to some developers. This is especially true for developers who do not spend the requisite amount of time away from work learning new technologies and techniques. The TDD approach is quite a departure from the traditional way of developing software. This drastic change can be difficult for some developers to understand and deal with. Some strategies can help members of your development team understand and adopt TDD. Telling then about this book is a good start. in addition, you can use some strategies to get your teammates interested in TDD" (2011, Bender et al.).
With these quote i resume all the book. Excellent book and highly recommended, a lot information about TDD Principles, good practices in software development and a lot of reference to other books and frameworks. Despite the book was written in 2011 is a good introduction for developers interesting on doing the things right.
"Getting management buy-in for TDD can be difficult task. TDD, especially for a developer or development team who is learning it, represents a significant learning curve that can make initial development much slower. Managers are tasked with getting software delivered on time [...]. A good tactic is to demonstrate that although the upfront development takes longer dramatically lower defect count after application reaches QA and the higher customer satisfaction after the application is deployed more than make up for the perceived slower start-up. Managers like charts and figures. [...] Show that TDD provides more value than development without TDD, and your manager will have to pay attention" (2011. Bender et al.).
I felt totally identified with this quote, specially with the last one.
With these quote i resume all the book. Excellent book and highly recommended, a lot information about TDD Principles, good practices in software development and a lot of reference to other books and frameworks. Despite the book was written in 2011 is a good introduction for developers interesting on doing the things right.
"Getting management buy-in for TDD can be difficult task. TDD, especially for a developer or development team who is learning it, represents a significant learning curve that can make initial development much slower. Managers are tasked with getting software delivered on time [...]. A good tactic is to demonstrate that although the upfront development takes longer dramatically lower defect count after application reaches QA and the higher customer satisfaction after the application is deployed more than make up for the perceived slower start-up. Managers like charts and figures. [...] Show that TDD provides more value than development without TDD, and your manager will have to pay attention" (2011. Bender et al.).
I felt totally identified with this quote, specially with the last one.
June 6, 2020
When I read this it was a pleasure to get some decent information on testing and how to properly test code.
Nice examples, nicely explained and there was proper justification to actual project management vs expected project management.
Nice examples, nicely explained and there was proper justification to actual project management vs expected project management.
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April 27, 2012
This is a decent book to convince yourself that writing tests before code is a good thing. It is very readable.
For each class of tool used, the author picks one for use in the examples. The result is examples that relate to each other, allowing a reader to reinforce the concepts each time. There is a chapter which summarizes some of the different other tools which exist out there so you know that they exist. More tools will come out, tools will evolve, techniques invented etc... Hence this book can be used to jumpstart one's foray into TDD (or BDD? see next paragraph), but cannot possibly be a comprehensive reference.
The word 'testing' is in TDD, hence I can understand advocating the use of testing frameworks, IoC containers and mocking frameworks. However, this book does much of the tests in a BDD style. I feel that the book's title will be better named something like "Writing Tests before Code". A positive example would be the book "The Art of Unit Testing", which focuses solely on unit testing, has a paragraph saying that TDD is good, but does not otherwise sneak in TDD into the book.
That being said, I am not angry with the author. In fact, I'm rather pleased with being exposed to BDD. Nonetheless, I will be reading 'purer' TDD books ("Test Driven Development: By Example", "Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests") to find out more about TDD, and will find out more about BDD.
For each class of tool used, the author picks one for use in the examples. The result is examples that relate to each other, allowing a reader to reinforce the concepts each time. There is a chapter which summarizes some of the different other tools which exist out there so you know that they exist. More tools will come out, tools will evolve, techniques invented etc... Hence this book can be used to jumpstart one's foray into TDD (or BDD? see next paragraph), but cannot possibly be a comprehensive reference.
The word 'testing' is in TDD, hence I can understand advocating the use of testing frameworks, IoC containers and mocking frameworks. However, this book does much of the tests in a BDD style. I feel that the book's title will be better named something like "Writing Tests before Code". A positive example would be the book "The Art of Unit Testing", which focuses solely on unit testing, has a paragraph saying that TDD is good, but does not otherwise sneak in TDD into the book.
That being said, I am not angry with the author. In fact, I'm rather pleased with being exposed to BDD. Nonetheless, I will be reading 'purer' TDD books ("Test Driven Development: By Example", "Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests") to find out more about TDD, and will find out more about BDD.
September 21, 2016
I was curious about this book, as I have already read other ones such as Test Driven Development: By Example, Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide, Test Driven: Practical TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers or Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests.
So, this books is indeed about how TDD helps produce maintainable code. This book is—as its title says—focused on Microsoft .Net platform and the associated tools. It recalls important concepts such as the SOLID principles, how to mock dependencies, etc. before to dive into .Net specific examples that cover WPF, WCF, etc.
What I like most is that it illustrates TDD in the context of Agile development, explaining how to break down a user story into features, and in turn into tests.
So, this books is indeed about how TDD helps produce maintainable code. This book is—as its title says—focused on Microsoft .Net platform and the associated tools. It recalls important concepts such as the SOLID principles, how to mock dependencies, etc. before to dive into .Net specific examples that cover WPF, WCF, etc.
What I like most is that it illustrates TDD in the context of Agile development, explaining how to break down a user story into features, and in turn into tests.
July 19, 2012
I'm not sure what to think about the inclusion of NBehave...it either should have been covered more, or left out entirely, IMO. I guess I'm intrigued enough to look into it some more. As with any book that covers TDD, there's quite an emphasis put on various frameworks (mocking, dependency injection, etc). It can be a lot to try and absorb if you're tentatively poking your toes in the TDD waters.
Anyway, this was pretty well written. Personally, I liked the integration of unit testing with the overall sample project you build in the book Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework better. That sort of put everything in a really good, practical context which is a bit lacking in this book.
Anyway, this was pretty well written. Personally, I liked the integration of unit testing with the overall sample project you build in the book Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework better. That sort of put everything in a really good, practical context which is a bit lacking in this book.
August 14, 2013
very comprehensive coverage of what developing c# code test driven is. If you need one book that covers unit, functional and even give you a quick glace at UI test this is the one for you. Definitely recommend this one!
July 4, 2011
Still reading ... Very interesting ....
March 7, 2014
I thought that the book would give me more insights on how to use Test Driven Development. But it was more of a cursory overview of TDD.
April 9, 2014
This book is a must read for any C# programmer looking to start testing! Had more to share but I recommend you just read the book.
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