Test Driven Development

TDD

• Idea 1: Find a project that already has a testing harness and associated tests; learn it, and add a new unit test
• Idea 2: Create a test harness to make, build, and run unit tests on an existing open source project
  • Jim Bowring has done this in the past, though it seems they are lengthy projects vs a shorter activity; Do we want to create a “project”-oriented LA?

• Teach the “mental discipline” of testing
• How can we test a Requirement?
  • Ensuring testing starts at user requirement gathering
  • Iterating through tests once code has been written, helps to improve the tests

• Dave thinks ManageIQ does unit testing
• Background reading:
  • http://www.cs.cofc.edu/~bowring/ - course in testing
  • Boris Byser - the test guru
  • Kent Beck - extreme programming (ford motor)
  • http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Test_Coverage_Activity