February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
7h 45m
English
Overview
The practice of Test-Driven Development (TDD) has helped
thousands of software developers improve quality, agility,
productivity, and speed. In Test-Driven Database
Development, Max Guernsey, III shows how to adapt TDD to
achieve the same powerful benefits in database design and
development.
Guernsey first explains why TDD offers so much potential to
database practitioners, and how to overcome obstacles such as the
lack of conventional “testable classes.” You’ll
learn how to use “classes of databases” to manage
change more effectively; how to define testable database behaviors;
how to maximize long-term maintainability by limiting a
database’s current scope; and how to use “emergent
design” to simplify future expansion.
Building on this foundation, the author guides you through
implementing modern TDD processes and database refactoring. He
presents practical techniques for improving legacy databases; for
deviating from strict TDD when necessary; and for adapting TDD to
applications that persist data in file systems, XML, or serialized
objects. Guernsey shows how to
• Build a simple infrastructure to track and
standardize scripts and databases
• Define a sustainable TDD process for database
design
• Safely change a design without losing data
• Design new databases that are lighter, leaner,
simpler, more testable, and easier to change
• Reduce design costs by eliminating duplication
• Gradually bring the benefits of TDD, agility, and
modern design to legacy databases
• Remediate errors that find their way into database
designs
• Isolate behaviors and avoid unwanted dependencies
that cause tests to fail
With this book as a guide, you will learn how to apply the proven
practice of TDD to your database needs, and organize and optimize
your organization’s data for a significant competitive
advantage.
Test-Driven Database Developmentis the newest title in the highly respected NetObjectives Lean-Agile Series.
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