Test-Driven Development - A Stunningly Quick Introduction

Description

"The job of QA is not just to do testing it's to build quality in.How often have you heard that sentence? And how often has it been followed up with solid practices for actually building quality in?

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is one of the foundational practices of high-quality product development. Popularized nearly 20 years ago, TDD is an important skill for high-quality software development. If you want it to be easier to build high-quality code, then you need to understand TDD.

In this hands-on session, we'll learn by doing. Richard will facilitate a coding dojo, a safe place to learn and practice the skills of test-driven development. We'll mob-program together on a coding kata - an easy programming problem - to learn TDD, refactoring, clean code, code smells, and more - all in the pursuit of technical agility, business agility, and a great product that people love. To follow along, bring your laptop and development environment.

You'll leave with an introduction to solid new skills, including: