Are there any good online tutorials to TDD for an experienced programmer who is new to testing? [closed]

Answer 1

Kent Beck's book gives some examples in Java and some in Python (to be honest, Kent doesn't strike me as a superstar in either language, judging from the example code in this book... but he definitely comes across as a superstar in TDD &c -- as well he should, given he's basically invented it as well as extreme programming, see his wikipedia entry).

Answer 2

I think that the chapters covering testing in Dive Into Python are pretty good. They cover building a basic program from scratch using TDD.

Answer 3

I started unit testing a handful of years ago, and I've read quite a few on it since my initial book. However, my initial was "Test Driven" by Lasse. For me, the author made it simple to understand. Perhaps you could pull some info from it for your teaching.

And btw, I've taught TDD as well. I have found that ensuring the audience understands how to use unit tests before going into TDD to be quite handy.

Good luck! :-)

Answer 4

I was very pleased with the two-part article "Test Driven Development in Python" on O'Reilly's site:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2004/12/02/tdd_pyunit.html - waybackmachine

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2005/02/03/tdd_pyunit2.html - waybackmachine 2/3 and 3/3

These really cleared up how to use Python's unittest module for TDD, as well as giving me a good dose of the TDD mindset.

Answer 5

Not in python but this is a good intro by jp boodhoo

http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/06/28/dnrtv-show-10-jean-paul-boodhoo-on-test-driven-development-part-1-of-2

Answer 6

Getting Started with Tdd in Java using Eclipse by Brett L. Schuchert

Is a set of screencasts about TDD in Java and in C#. It is starting from the scratch and teaching basics.