by Kent Beck
Beck demonstrates the red-green-refactor cycle of test-driven development through two worked examples (a money example in Java and the xUnit framework in Python), arguing that writing tests first produces cleaner designs and frees programmers from the fear of change. He presents TDD not as a testing technique but as a design discipline in which tests drive the emergence of the code's architecture.
In this collection, Test-Driven Development: By Example references 3 other books.
It draws on Refactoring, The Mythical Man-Month and The Pragmatic Programmer.
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Beck co-authored Fowler's Refactoring and treats the 'refactor' step of the red-green-refactor cycle as direct application of Fowler's catalog - the book is a companion to Refactoring in the Addison-Wesley signature series.
Beck cites Brooks's Mythical Man-Month for its discussion of essential complexity, using it to motivate his claim that TDD manages complexity incrementally rather than through big up-front design.
Beck's TDD discipline extends the pragmatic programmer ethos of Hunt and Thomas - writing tested, modular code as a core craft practice rather than an afterthought.
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