CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2014/ch1b 28 cg

==Behavior-Driven Development and Test-Driven Development

What is Test-Driven Development?

[1]Test-driven development (TDD)Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes an (initially failing) automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces the minimum amount of code to pass that test, and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards.

Development cycle

A TDD development cycle could be simply described as followed

• first write an automated test for your code. While writing the automated tests, you must take into account all possible inputs, errors, and outputs. This way, your mind is not clouded by any code that's already been written.
• The first time you run your automated test, the test should fail—indicating that the code is not yet ready.
• programming. Since there's already an automated test, as long as the code fails it, it means that it's still not ready. The code can be fixed until it passes all assertions.
• Begin cleaning up codes and remove redundancy via refactoring. As long as the code still passes the test, it means that it still works. You no longer have to worry about changes that introduce new bugs.
• Start the whole thing over again with some other method or program.