Welcome to Duncan White's Practical Software Development (PSD) Pages.

I'm Duncan White, an experienced and professional programmer, and have been programming for well over 30 years, mainly in C and Perl, although I know many other languages. In that time, despite my best intentions:-), I just can't help learning a thing or two about the practical matters of designing, programming, testing, debugging, running projects etc. Back in 2007, I thought I'd start writing an occasional series of articles, book reviews, more general thoughts etc, all focussing on software development without all the guff.

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Testing and Development - the Siamese Twins of PSD.

Principles of Testing

Based on the common ground between my experience, XP/TDD concepts and the 3 "PP" books I keep mentioning: we can make a stab at the core principles of testing:

Different Kinds of Tests

Of course, there are many different types of tests, here are some of them:

Enough Theory! Show me an example!

Ok, that's more than enough theory! In the Second Part, we'll develop a worked example of TDD.


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Written: March-June 2013