Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET

Chapter 3. TDD and Refactoring A good example is a powerful thing; I think we are in agreement on that. One way to describe Test-Driven Development (TDD) is to say that you use tests or examples for specifying the behavior. Those examples wi...

Test-Driven Development (TDD) After having used TDD for a couple of years now, I'm still getting even fonder of the technique. I'm becoming more and more convinced that TDD is the single most important technique in becoming a better programmer. St...

Mocks and Stubs I said that we will talk about database testing later in the book. It's actually already time for the first incarnation of that. Here Claudio Perrone will discuss how you apply the technique of stubs and mocks in your testing. In t...

Refactoring I mentioned refactoring previously as the third step in the general process of TDD, and I think I should briefly explain the term a bit more. Refactoring is about making small, well-known changes step-by-step in order to improve the de...

Summary As a summary, I'd like to stress the point of TDD + Refactoring == true. They are so very much in symbiosis. In order to be able to use refactoring in a safe way, you must carry out extensive tests. If you don't, you will introduce bugs a...