Test Driven Development and Refactoring Training

Objective

Test-driven development makes software quality part of the development process and at the same time creates a safety net for future changes to our product. Starting from the basics of unit testing, this workshop guides the participants through specific code examples and exercises to show them how to do TDD efficiently and in a sustainable manner, getting the most out of this methodology while avoiding its pitfalls.
The course is available in the following programming languages:
.NET, C#, partly in C++.

Target Audience

Architects, software developers.

Content

The material is divided into 4 modules. During each module, the trainer will guide you through lectures and exercises that help you connect the material to your existing experience, learn new concepts and experience the concepts through practice.
The course also points of when TDD is not the appropriate tool, to build a balanced view about TDD.
During the course students have the opportunity to learn many useful open source and commercial tools for efficiently practicing TDD, like NCrunch, Resharper, Fluent Assertions, NSubstitute, NBuilder, etc.

Modules:

• Introduction to Unit Testing: what to test, why to test, how to test
• Handling dependences using Fake objects
• Refactoring
• TDD theory and practice

Misc.

• Participants are expected to bring their own notebooks (with Visual Studio 2015, ReSharper and NCrunch).
• Handout (English or Hungarian) will be provided for the participants.
• Welcome coffee, lunch, and other coffee breaks included in the price. Price includes infrastructure and catering services that are stated on the related invoice as individual items.