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Essential Test-Driven Development (Addison-Wesley Signature Series
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Expected 1 Mar 26
Essential Test-Driven Development
will help you reclaim the joy of software development.
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is the discipline at the core of modern software development, enabling incremental and iterative design without degrading quality. Software teams develop a safety net of fast, comprehensive regression tests alongside their product that immediately catches typical mistakes and provides the feedback necessary to enhance functionality with unmatched speed and confidence.
Leading TDD coach and instructor Rob Myers shares his experiences, recommendations, and stories, plus fun self-directed exercises from his acclaimed TDD course. Throughout, this guide reflects the author's unsurpassed experience practicing TDD on real production code and helping hundreds of teams adopt TDD practices. Myers addresses both human motivations and technical challenges, and stresses benefits to individual developers as well as their customers and employers.
This book offers a fresh perspective on a tried-and-true practice, giving developers techniques that will enhance Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Functional Programming (FP), and even the latest AI-enabled "Vibe Coding."
This book also provides exceptional coverage of legacy code "characterization testing," reflecting the actual realities many developers face.
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is the discipline at the core of modern software development, enabling incremental and iterative design without degrading quality. Software teams develop a safety net of fast, comprehensive regression tests alongside their product that immediately catches typical mistakes and provides the feedback necessary to enhance functionality with unmatched speed and confidence.
Leading TDD coach and instructor Rob Myers shares his experiences, recommendations, and stories, plus fun self-directed exercises from his acclaimed TDD course. Throughout, this guide reflects the author's unsurpassed experience practicing TDD on real production code and helping hundreds of teams adopt TDD practices. Myers addresses both human motivations and technical challenges, and stresses benefits to individual developers as well as their customers and employers.
This book offers a fresh perspective on a tried-and-true practice, giving developers techniques that will enhance Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Functional Programming (FP), and even the latest AI-enabled "Vibe Coding."
This book also provides exceptional coverage of legacy code "characterization testing," reflecting the actual realities many developers face.
368 pages, Paperback
Expected publication March 1, 2026
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