Design Driven Testing

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.

• 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.