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Test-Driven Java Development, Second Edition

You're reading from   Test-Driven Java Development, Second Edition Invoke TDD principles for end-to-end application development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788836111
Length 324 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Alex Garcia Alex Garcia
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Viktor Farcic Viktor Farcic
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Why Should I Care for Test-Driven Development? FREE CHAPTER 2. Tools, Frameworks, and Environments 3. Red-Green-Refactor – From Failure Through Success until Perfection 4. Unit Testing – Focusing on What You Do and Not on What Has Been Done 5. Design – If It's Not Testable, It's Not Designed Well 6. Mocking – Removing External Dependencies 7. TDD and Functional Programming – A Perfect Match 8. BDD – Working Together with the Whole Team 9. Refactoring Legacy Code – Making It Young Again 10. Feature Toggles – Deploying Partially Done Features to Production 11. Putting It All Together 12. Leverage TDD by Implementing Continuous Delivery 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Red-Green-Refactor – From Failure Through Success until Perfection

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
– Bruce Lee

The Red-Green-Refactor technique is the basis of test-driven development (TDD). It is a game of ping pong in which we are switching between tests and implementation code at great speed. We'll fail, then we'll succeed, and, finally, we'll improve.

We'll develop a Tic-Tac-Toe game by going through each requirement one at a time. We'll write a test and see if it fails. Then, we'll write code that implements that test, run all the tests, and see them succeed. Finally, we'll refactor the code and try to make it better. This process will be repeated many times until all the requirements are successfully implemented.

We'll start by setting up the environment with Gradle...

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