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P. D. HardyImproving the Quality of ABAP Codehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6711-0_2

2. Why Test-Driven Development Is a Must for Code Quality

Paul David Hardy1  
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North Strathfield, NSW, Australia
 

Recently, Amazon claimed that it puts a new change into its production system every 1.59 seconds with no risk at all. How can this possibly be true? It’s all to do with test-driven development (hereafter TDD).

A small fraction of ABAP programmers currently make use of object-oriented (OO) programming, and only a small fraction of that fraction has even heard of TDD, let alone used it. This chapter explains the very real benefit this approach can bring to the quality of your code, and how it could be viewed as being more about ...

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