Exploration Through Example

Example-driven development, Agile testing, context-driven testing, Agile programming, Ruby, and other things of interest to Brian Marick

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Wed, 17 May 2006

A Java app to demonstrate test-driven design

When teaching TDD, what I like best is to work with people on real changes to their own code. Sometimes that doesn't work. There may be logistical problems. The code may have such legacy nature that progress is way too slow to give them any feel for what a day in the life of a test-driven programmer is like (which is a big part of my goal).

When their code doesn't work out, demoing with toy applications is an unsatisfying alternative all around. I'd like to demo with some substantial open source Java application that was built test-first (so is testable). Does anyone have a recommendation? If so mail me.

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