© Greg Donald 2024
G. DonaldHands-on Test-Driven Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9748-3_1

1. Introduction

Greg Donald1  
(1)
Clarksville, TN, USA
 

Hello, and welcome! I’m very excited to share with you my book about test-driven software development. I’ve been a software engineer for over 25 years, and I’ve seen the results of software written using many different styles and techniques. It wasn’t so long ago that we didn’t even write tests for our software. At some point, some very smart people realized that writing tests for our software was actually a good idea. Our tests would provide us with confidence that our software worked as expected and even more importantly keep us from getting phone calls in the middle of the night to fix ...

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