Chapter 1. Getting Started with Test-Driven Development
My first encounter with Test-Driven Development (TDD) was back in 2002. At that time, it wasn't as mainstream as it is today, and I remember watching two developers writing some tests first and then implementing the functionality later. I thought it to be quite a strange way to write a code, and I promptly forgot about it. It was not until 2004, when I was involved with a challenging project, that I remembered TDD again. We were faced with a messy code that was difficult to test and every change seemed to create a series of new bugs. I thought, why not give TDD a shot and see how it worked? Suffice to say, TDD changed my outlook on software development. We stopped writing messy spaghetti ...
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