Test Driven Development: A Beginner’s Guide to TDD

Are you looking to give your first steps with Test Driven Development? Looking to accelerate your coding process and build more robust code? Are you looking for TDD real world examples? Our online course, “Test Driven Development: A Beginner’s Guide to TDD,” is the perfect introduction to this powerful approach. Learn how to write tests before writing code, making your development process more efficient and helping you catch errors before they become bigger problems.

This course is designed for beginners in Test Driven Development (TDD), but it’s recommended that you have some prior knowledge in programming languages and a basic understanding of object-oriented programming concepts. Starting from scratch, you’ll progress step-by-step through the course material. While the examples in this course are written in Java, the concepts can be applied to any programming language. The code examples are explained in detail and can be easily understood by programmers of other languages, such as PHP, Python, .NET, or others.

Whether you’re new to unit testing or struggling with the basics of unit tests and TDD, this course is for you. Together, we’ll develop the right mindset for working with TDD.

Requirements

• Basic programming knowledge
• Object oriented programming
• For the project: It’s required to know Java, but if you are very skilled in some other programming language you may be able to adapt it and follow the project in other programming language.

What you will learn?

• Test driven development
• Refactoring
• Code smells
• TDD
• Anti-patterns
• SOLID principles
• Design principles
• Test doubles
• Mocks
• Stubs
• Emergent design
• Unit Test

What you will you create?

In this class you will:

• Create unit test, implement and refactor for a Sales application.
• You will download a base project with some existing tests and code and you will add more tests to implement new functionality.

This course is specifically for:

• Developers of all languages who want to give the right first step with TDD.
• Developer of all levels.
• Developers that want to give their first steps with TDD.

This course is not suitable for:

• People with mid-level or advanced in TDD.

Why taking the class? What you will gain?

• Understanding the big picture of TDD
• Understanding the right way to apply TDD.
• Foundations to move forward to the next level and practice more on your own.
• Hands-on experience after working in a sample project.