# Test Driven Development

DevFeed: [Test Driven Development](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/test-driven-development-40749.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://radek.io/posts/test-driven-development/>)

Published: 2012-02-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Radek Pazdera](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/radek-pazdera.md>)

Topics: [Test-driven development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tdd.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Unit testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/unit-testing.md>), [Refactoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/refactoring.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [book](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/book.md>), [design-patterns](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design-patterns.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [junit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/junit.md>), [refactor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/refactor.md>), [regression](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/regression.md>), [review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/review.md>), [tdd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tdd.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [unit-testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/unit-testing.md>), [xunit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/xunit.md>)

## AI overview

A review of Kent Beck's book Test Driven Development: By Example. The article describes the book's treatment of TDD, including its small-step case study, the xUnit family of unit-testing frameworks, design patterns, and the Red-Green-Refactor routine. The reviewer finds the opening case study tedious but considers the later sections more interesting.

## Source excerpt

A review of Kent Beck's famous book on testing