gcaaa31928 / tdd-demo

tdd demo

This is focused on front end testing, in a JavaScript central world. Many principles likely apply to modern server and API development, but some elements will be emphasised or diminished in accordance with the significance for web apps.

Useful resources

• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Uncle Bob)
• Test Driven Development: By Example (Kent Beck)
• clean code talk by Uncle Bob
• idris wiki with lots more links

Traditional Testing pyramid

Strongly revolves around MVC and similar approaches, and a seperation where:

• logic lives in the server, written as code
• UI is written as markup and rendered on the client

Testing Pyramid

Rumours and hearsay

• writing tests is hard
• "I rewrote a whole component tree and I didn't have to change any tests!"