October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
9h 20m
English
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3.7 Mechanics for Success
The prior section, Section 3.6, Mind-Sets for Successful Adoption of TDD, emphasizes a philosophy for success with TDD. This section discusses various specific techniques that will help keep you on track.
What’s the Next Test?
As you embark on learning TDD, one of the biggest questions always on your mind will be, “What’s the next test I should write?” The examples in this book should suggest a few answers to this question.
One answer is to write the test that results in the simplest possible increment of production code. But just what does that mean?
Uncle Bob has devised a scheme to categorize each increment as a transformation form (see Section 10.4, The Transformation Priority Premise). All transformations are ...