February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
7h 26m
English
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Chapter 7. Testable design
In this chapter
- What is testable design?
- What is untestable design?
- How to create testable designs
In the preface of Implementation Patterns (Addison Wesley Professional, 2007), Kent Beck compares programming to an American TV show called Jeopardy. In the show the host provides answers and the contestants’ job is to guess which question that answer was for. “A short section at the end of a book.” “What is an epilogue?” “Correct.”
Kent makes the analogy to programming and points out that Java provides answers in the form of its language constructs, and the programmer’s job is to figure out what the questions are and which problems are solved by which language construct. He offers the following ...