Test driven development - why you should test first?
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The document presents an outline of a talk by Abimbola Idowu, a software developer at Andela, on the importance of testing in software development, emphasizing Test-Driven Development (TDD). It covers the benefits of testing, including improved code quality, predictability, and efficiency, and encourages developers to adopt testing practices in their projects. The session concludes with a call to action for attendees to engage with testing regardless of the programming language or framework they use.
Test driven development - why you should test first?
- 1. Why should you test first? Abimbola Idowu - Software Developer (a new way of life)
- 2. Outline ● About Me and Andela ● What is TDD ● Why should I test my code? ● Questions and answer
- 3. Who doesn’t like to tweet ;) @andela @hisabimbola @sue_hastings
- 4. About Me ● Graduated from this University ● Now a software developer at Andela ● Expert in the MEAN stack technology ● and obviously loves testing
- 5. About Andela ● Why Andela ● What we do ● You can join us.
- 6. “if it is worth building, it is worth testing if it’s not worth testing, why are you wasting your time on it” What is testing?
- 7. What is TDD ● Refactoring + Test first design ● Specification and not validation ● Programming Technique
- 8. Test Spec
- 9. TDD Cycle
- 10. What should you test Test everything.
- 11. What you should not test Any code that you did not write!
- 12. ● Predictability/Dependability ● Bugs found early in development ● Loose Coupling ● Let’s you sleep at night Why you should test
- 13. Why you should test ● Keeps the code simple ● Saves time (coding, debugging, refactoring) ● Have I broken anything on the way?
- 14. Why you should test Cont’d ● Is this task done yet? ● Tests are both design and documentation ● Shows professionalism
- 15. What next? Pick any language. Pick any framework and test...