James Shore, The Art of Agile
Are your tests slow and brittle? Do you get a sinking feeling when you need to refactor? Do you worry your unit tests aren’t actually testing anything important? If so, you could benefit from using test-driven development without mock objects.
In this session, we’ll do it live. We’ll use test-driven development to build a simple command-line application in Node. Along the way, you’ll learn the core principles of testing without mocks, the tradeoffs, what’s easier, and what’s harder. You’ll leave with a new bag of tricks for your toolkit and you’ll be ready to choose between a mock-based or mock-free approach depending on the needs of your code.
Bring a laptop with Node.js and git installed and come prepared to pair program.
James Shore, 2019 Workshop, Abstract
