Design Driven Testing Test Smarter, Not Harder

The groundbreaking book Design Driven Testing brings sanity back to the software development process by flipping around the concept of Test Driven Development (TDD)—restoring the concept of using testing to verify a design instead of pretending that unit tests are a replacement for design. Anyone who feels that TDD is “Too Damn Difficult” will appreciate this book.

Design Driven Testing shows that, by combining a forward-thinking development process with cutting-edge automation, testing can be a finely targeted, business-driven, rewarding effort. In other words, you’ll learn how to test smarter, not harder.

• Applies a feedback-driven approach to each stage of the project lifecycle.
• Illustrates a lightweight and effective approach using a core subset of UML.
• Follows a real-life example project using Java and Flex/ActionScript.
• Presents bonus chapters for advanced DDTers covering unit-test antipatterns (and their opposite, “test-conscious” design patterns), and showing how to create your own test transformation templates in Enterprise Architect.

DDT vs. TDD.- Somebody Has It Backwards.- TDD Using Hello World.- “Hello World!” Using DDT.- DDT in the Real World: Mapplet 2.0 Travel Web Site.- Introducing the Mapplet Project.- Detailed Design and Unit Testing.- Conceptual Design and Controller Testing.- Acceptance Testing: Expanding Use Case Scenarios.- Acceptance Testing: Business Requirements.- Advanced DDT.- Unit Testing Antipatterns (The “Don’ts”).- Design for Easier Testing.- Automated Integration Testing.- Unit Testing Algorithms.

Matt Stephens is a Java developer, project leader, and technical architect with a financial organization based in central London. He's been developing software commercially for over 15 years, and has led many agile projects through successive customer releases. He has spoken at a number of software conferences on object-oriented development topics, and his writing appears regularly in a variety of software journals and websites, including The Register and ObjectiveView. Matt is the co-author of Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP (Apress, 2003) with Doug Rosenberg, Agile Development with ICONIX Process (Apress, 2005) with Doug Rosenberg and Mark Collins-Cope, and Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: Theory and Practice with Doug Rosenberg (Apress, 2007). Catch Matt online at www.softwarereality.com.