Chapter 1. Why, Who, and What

This is a book about how to effectively apply the discipline of test-driven development (TDD) to the tasks surrounding delivery of database functionality. It is a book for people who want to know how to apply the discipline of test-driven development to database programming. To get to how, though, one first needs to examine why, who, and what.

Why

When I started writing this book, the working title was Agile Database Development: From Requirements to Delivery. The fact that its name and scope has changed a couple times seems quite fitting.

Due to both feedback and revelation, this book has undergone several radical metamorphoses, first starting out as a book that was mostly about process with a little bit of technique ...

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