ATDD by Example: A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development

Foreword by Kent Beck

There is a curious symmetry to the way this book presents Acceptance Test-Driven Development and the way software is developed with ATDD. Just as there is an art to picking the specific examples of program behavior that will elicit the correct general behavior for the system, there is an art to picking specific examples of a programming technique like ATDD to give you, the reader, a chance to learn the technique for yourself. Markus has done an admirable job in selecting and presenting examples.

To read this book you will need to read code. If you follow along, you will have the opportunity to learn the shift in thinking that is required to succeed with ATDD. That shift is, in short, to quickly go from, “Here’s a feature ...