Retrospective
Specify Behaviors with Tests to create living specifications. We walked through an example of building some basic functionality test-first and saw how to use tests to specify behavior. When developers see the benefit of doing test-first development, they can become test infected and want to do all their development test-first.
In this chapter, we discovered…
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How to use your test suite to not only verify behavior but also to specify it.
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By instrumenting tests, you can clearly state their purpose and they become a form of living specifications.
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Tests provide a “safety net,” allowing you to refactor code and instantly know if you’ve made a mistake.
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By writing tests to specify behaviors, you’ll always know the right kind and number ...
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