If you do Test Driven Development all the time

TDD produces test cases that cover and address every line of code that you write. With this 100% test coverage, you can change your code ...

Using Test-Driven Development can help boost productivity when it comes to building code that works correctly. Though the process may seem a bit ...

Part of the point of using TDD is to help you think about the thing you're building from the outside, without thought for the implementation, so ...

The premise behind TDD is that you write all your unit tests before you write any code. If you build your unit tests out completely making sure ...

I think debugging is often a big time sink. We spend a lot of time searching for bugs. Fixing them generally isn't the problem, it's usually the ...

One of the benefits of TDD is that it lets you focus on testing small pieces of code at a time; with that, your knowledge grows incrementally.

Lean TDD is an attempt to reconcile some conflicting aspects of Test Driven Development and Lean Software Development. I've mentioned Lean ...

One of the advantages of working in a TDD style is that it forces you (or should) to work incrementally in smaller pieces of code, which can ...

If a test has passed (i.e. shows as 'green') you can refactor from a green test to another green test. Following a refactor, if all tests are ...

The TDD approach provides quick feedback on introducing a bug and fixing it. A developer notices a bug as soon as the test fails and then fixes ...

First you write a failing test, then you write the code to make it pass, then you refactor your code. This can be remembered by thinking of Red, ...

Unit tests you created can be a very good documentation for the code. For example, when a new developer starts to work on a new peace of ...

And since writing the tests when the work is completed or nearing completion will include all I have discovered during implementation, writing ...

When you write software test first you are forced to decompose the software down to the smallest bits of behavior. When you don't get these ...

... we produce. But if that is the case why doesn't every development team have TDD at the core of its development approach? In this episode ...

When working with legacy code TDD can simple just not work. This usually is due to how that legacy code has been written. If it has not been ...

And therein lies the problem, we talk about TDD as if it is an investment to ensure that our code works after we make changes, but testing ...

The idea is that when you run your tests the first time, they will fail. After you've written your (failing) tests, you do the actual ...

One common challenge is that writing tests can be time-consuming, and it can be tempting for developers to skip this step in the interest of ...

If you are coding solo, it doesn't matter that much although writing test cases first forces you to code to the project requirements effectively ...