Agile Software Development - Test-driven Development

Agile Software Development - Test-driven Development

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

Overview/Description
See how Agile Test-driven Development (TDD) combines coding, testing, and design to reduce defect rates and improve product quality. During this course you will explore the TDD cycle and best practices, learn about acceptance and developer TDD, Agile test techniques, and TDD database development. Other topics include how to recognize the importance of TDD documentation, study test-driven development issues, code visibility, the red/green/refactor cycle, and TDD for complex systems. Finally, as an exercise, you will review test-driven development best practices.

Target Audience
Experienced software developers and programmers who wish to become proficient in the application of Agile methodologies in software development projects

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.8

Lesson Objectives

Agile Software Development - Test-driven Development

start the course

describe what TDD is and how it works

identify the steps in the TDD cycle

identify TDD best practices

describe what acceptance TDD is

describe what developer TDD is

compare TDD to other Agile testing techniques

recognize the importance of TDD documentation

describe test-driven database development

recognize BDD and TDD approaches to Agile development

identify potential issues when implementing TDD in an Agile project

describe test-driven work

describe how TDD should be written in the same project as the code that is being tested

describe the practices used for complex systems

recognize how to apply TDD to Agile database development

describe the red/green/refactor cycle

identify TDD best practices

Course Number:
sd_adev_a07_it_enus

Expertise Level
Beginner