Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Software Development
Software Testing

Join the ranks of world’s leading software engineer by practicing Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development is a short-cyclic development process. In this hands-on training you will supercharge your developer skills. Create software in a predictable and focused manner.

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What will you learn?

Take the next step in your software engineering journey.

Apply TDD to drive the design of your applications, to refactor effectively and with confidence.

Practice in the programming language of your choice.

Key takeaways

  1. Learn the TDD basics and avoid common pitfalls.
  2. Experience how early feedback and refactoring give you more confidence in your code.
  3. Practice how TDD helps you focus better on one task at a time.

Program

During the course, we will cover the basics of TDD, but focus on practice and discussing concerns or questions.

Red-Green-Refactor – learn more on the fundamental rhythm of TDD. And patterns for each step.

Exercise – Different exercises for XP points.

Discuss – how you can make TDD work for you and your team.

Who is it for?

This course is for anyone who develops software. You may have just started your career or want to challenge your current development patterns.

Requirements

Familiar in at least one programming language.

You will need to bring your laptop with an internet connection and IDE.

Why should I follow this training?

Improve software quality

Help you and your company building better software, with less defects and higher maintainability.

Improve developer experience

Drive short feedback cycles and focus on completing smaller tasks at a time.

Grow development skills

TDD provides you the tools to write better code and dealing with the unknown by asking questions and let the tests guide your design.

Meet the trainer

Arjan Molenaar

Arjan Molenaar is a software engineer working for Xebia in The Netherlands. In the past 10 years, he’s been involved in numerous projects ranging from financial systems to embedded applications. He’s

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