Test Driven Development divides opinion, but there are few other practices that in realworld development teams reduce bug counts by between 40 and 90%. Software development is a difficult endeavour and so we should take every advantage that we can get, so what is the evidence that TDD works in practice, what are it’s downsides, how can we make TDD easy to adopt and how can we simplify TDD?

In this episode Dave Farley author of best selling books “Continuous Delivery”, “Continuous Delivery Pipelines” and “Modern Software Engineering” explores these ideas and shows examples of the the difference between good TDD and bad.



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LINKS:

Research into TDD in Practice at IBM & Microsoft ”Realizing quality improvement through test driven development: results and experiences of four industrial teams" ➡ https://www.microsoft.com/enus/resea...

“On the effectiveness of unit tests in testdriven development” ➡ https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/32...

“An Experimental Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of the Test Driven Development” ➡ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/...



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