Design Driven Testing: Test Smarter, Not Harder

Chapter 4. Introducing the Mapplet Project

It's more difficult (and more time consuming) to base a book around a real software project than it is to write one with a toy example. For this book, though, we thought it was important to show how DDT works on the real thing, as we expect a bit of skepticism from test-driven developers. This chapter introduces you to our example project, which we call the Mapplet 2.0, and Chapters 5–8 will show how we've unit tested it (at two levels of abstraction) and how we've done acceptance testing against use-case scenarios and against the requirements. As you can see in the chapter-opener diagram, these two levels ...