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Tests
Throughout this book, you’ve seen many of the unit tests I have written. In virtually every case, I used the TDD1 discipline of writing my tests and code in a tight loop, with the tests a few seconds ahead of the code.
1. I have written a great deal about this discipline in Clean Craftsmanship (Addison-Wesley, 2021), Clean Code (Pearson, 2008), and Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices (Pearson, 2002). There is also a vast amount of information available on the Web. One of the best books on the topic is Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce (Addison-Wesley, 2010). ...
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