Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

Steve Freeman

Nat Pryce

I. Introduction

1. What's the point of Test Driven Development?
2. Test-Driven Development with Objects
3. An Introduction to the Tools
4. Review

II. A Worked Example

5. Commissioning an Auction Sniper
6. The Walking Skeleton
7. Passing the First Test
8. Getting ready to bid
9. The Sniper makes a bid
10. The Sniper wins the Auction
11. Towards a real user interface
12. Sniping for Multiple Items

III. Examining the Process

13. Kick-Starting the Test-Driven Cycle
14. Maintaining the Test-Driven Cycle
15. Object-Oriented Design with Mock Objects
16. The Readability of Tests
17. Test Diagnostics
18. Unit Testing with Third-Party Code
19. Listening to the Tests
20. Brittle and Flexible Tests

IV. Tricky Testing Topics

21. Constructing Complex Test Data
22. Testing Persistence
23. Time and Testing
24. Unit Testing and Threads
25. Testing Asynchronous Code
26. Unit Testing Random Behaviour
27. Test-Driven Debugging

V. Appendices

A. Mock Objects from scratch
B. What Not to Mock
C. jMock 2 Cheat Sheet
D. A Comparison of Mock Object Frameworks
Bibliography

Copyright © 2008 Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce