Technical Practices: TDD-2

The course with a total contact time of 16 hours is delivered in presence or in interactive online mode. The course is split in various modules, none of which exceeds two hours, with short breaks as needed and sufficiently long breaks between the sessions. The actual times for breaks are agreed upon in the group at the beginning of the course.

Pre-course and post-course activities are part of the training and are presented via our interactive online learning platform in various formats (video, text, quizzes, worksheets, further reading, ...).

In alignment with the group’s level of knowledge and the participants’ engagement, the agenda is adapted. A typical course is structured as follows.

Day 1

• Outside-in and inside-out design
• Test doubles – mocks, stubs, fakes
• Test case design guidelines for outside-in design
• Balancing inside-out and outside-in design
• Guiding outside-in design through microtests
• Review of software design principles
• Common code smells and remedies

Day 2

• Establishing a test baseline: Golden Master approach
• Establishing a test baseline: Read by Refactoring approach
• Identifying seams in code
• Writing characterisation tests
• Breaking dependencies to enable microtesting
• Practicum: – identifying code smells – finding seams – breaking dependencies – building test coverage