My goal is to convince you to test your code the next time you are developing an application. Introduction to test driven development

1. Why should you test first?
Abimbola Idowu - Software Developer
(a new way of life)

2. Outline
● About Me and Andela
● What is TDD
● Why should I test my code?
● Questions and answer

3. Who doesn’t like to tweet ;)
@andela
@hisabimbola
@sue_hastings

4. About Me
● Graduated from this University
● Now a software developer at
Andela
● Expert in the MEAN stack
technology
● and obviously loves testing

5. About Andela
● Why Andela
● What we do
● You can join us.

6. “if it is worth building, it is worth testing
if it’s not worth testing, why are you wasting your time on it”
What is testing?

7. What is TDD
● Refactoring + Test first design
● Specification and not validation
● Programming Technique

8. Test Spec

9. TDD Cycle

10. What should you test
Test everything.

11. What you should not test
Any code that you did not write!

12. ● Predictability/Dependability
● Bugs found early in development
● Loose Coupling
● Let’s you sleep at night
Why you should test

13. Why you should test
● Keeps the code simple
● Saves time (coding, debugging, refactoring)
● Have I broken anything on the way?

14. Why you should test Cont’d
● Is this task done yet?
● Tests are both design and documentation
● Shows professionalism

15. What next?
Pick any language.
Pick any framework
and test...

16. Questions and Answer