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Two Days Test Driven Development (TDD) Workshop

The TDD Workshop offers a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to evolutionary design, clean code and automated testing.

Over the past decade, eXtreme Programming practices like User Stories, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Developer (BDD), Refactoring, Continuous Integration and Automation have fundamentally changed software development processes and inherently how engineers work.

This workshop explores the foundations of TDD, unit testing and automated refactoring with the help of various patterns, strategies, tools and techniques.Students will learn essential test-first approaches via interactive discussions, multimedia content, hands-on exercises and quizzes.

Learning Outcome

At the end of this training the team will be able to:

  • Understand the thought process and steps involved during a typical test-driven session.
  • Drive the development (design and implementation) of a User Story using automated tests.
  • Discover improved confidence & increase in development speed by writing automated tests first!
  • Examine various styles of TDD and their attributes
  • Understand various TDD patterns, which will help you acquire the TDD skill faster.

Course Outline

Unit Testing

  • Philosophy of Developer Unit Testing
  • Anatomy of Unit Testing Framework
  • Automated Tests
  • Overview of XUnit
  • Testing Pyramid

Test Driven Development

  • Introduction to TDD
  • Test First Vs Test Last
  • TDD Rhythm: Red, Green, Refactor
  • Crucial Design Principles
  • TDD and Design
  • Avatars of TDD

Executable Specification

  • Crafting acceptance criteria for user stories
  • Writing executable examples for each criteria
  • Demo of BDD frameworks (Cucumber, FitNesse, SpecFlow, Jasmine)

Beyond Basics

  • Test Doubles/Fakes – Stubs, Mocks, Spy, Simulators…
  • TDD in Legacy Code
Test-driven development cycle flowchart

Strongly Recommended

1 or 2 Days of Mentoring via Pair Programming with Developers on your code base

  • To get your team kick-started with the learning from the workshop, we recommend, that our trainer spends a day or two, working with your team on your code base.
  • Each day will be reserved for 4 pair programming sessions. During these sessions, the workshop participants will take specific examples from their projects, where they are finding it difficult to apply any of the practices learned in the workshop. The trainer will then pair with an individual to show how to resolve those challenges.
  • At the end of the day, the 4 volunteers will summarize their learning by showing before and after code from their respective pairing session to the rest of the group.

Pre-Post Programming Assessment

The goal of these programming assessments is to identify real and quantifiable measures for the learning achieved through our workshop.

Objective

  • Get a quick understanding of your knowledge and skill level with respect to Designing & Programming
  • Establish a baseline against which the effectiveness of the workshop may be measured
  • Customize our workshop based on specific areas identified in this assessment

Pre-Assessment

  • Before the workshop, we’ll send a problem description, your developers will spend max 4 hours and solve the problem and send us the code. We’ll evaluate the code and send you detailed feedback about the code, including areas for improvement. We can send different types of problems (fresh development, cleaning up existing code and so on.)

Post-Assessment

  • 2 week after the workshop, we send another problem and evaluate the solution code. A comparison between the Pre and Post Assessment should be able to clearly quantify per-participant level improvement.
  • Click on the image to download the sample report…
TDD workshop assessment chart analyzing design and testing skills.

Training Details

Method of Instruction

Interactive Dialogues, Programming Exercises, Demos and Instructional Games

Transfer %

Knowledge: 50%, Skill-Building: 50%

Target Audience

  • Primary: Sr. Object-Oriented Programmers, Architects, and Designers
  • Secondary: Technical Managers, Business Analysts, Testers, Technical Writers

Course Level

Intermediate to Advanced

Course Prerequisites

  • Required: some understanding of OO concepts and an OO language
  • Highly Recommended: basic understanding of the life-cycle of software projects

General Requirements

To ensure a successful workshop, we require the following facilities:
  • HDMI projector (1024×768 minimum) & Projector screen
  • 1 White board & Dry erase markers
  • Cluster seating with 5-6 people on each table
  • 1 Flip chart with the stand and marker pens for each table
  • Notepad and Pen for each participant
  • Ample room for students in terms of room size and set up
  • For Dev trainings: at least one powerful workstation between two programmers

Development Tools

C/C++

Ruby

PHP

Flex

Testimonials

“Inversion of Software Development”, that’s what Naresh gave me through his 5 days workshop at Amazon. He is one of the best mentors I encountered in my career.

The way he tries to explain TDD and Design principles with practical approaches, always challenging the concepts which we used to think were industry standards. Learning through his workshop, now coding is like blogging, drop dead simple, and you don’t look back.

I hope we had more dojos like Naresh mentoring people in Indian Software Industries to let them know what real clean software development is all about. To sum up he instilled the idea – “Perfection isn’t the goal, it’s the baseline.” about software development in me.

– Rajat Talwar, Software Engineer II, Amazon

It’s been 3 weeks since I had the opportunity to attend a 3-Day TDD workshop followed by a 3-Day Design Patterns workshop by Naresh Jain. Post the workshops; I was able to fully test drive a feature that is already in production.

I had many take-away from his workshops, but the most important ones were – 1. It gave me the confidence that with TDD you can come up with good designs, 2. Learnt refactoring techniques and IDE tricks, 3. Got a deeper understanding of design values, principles and patterns. 4. Identifying code smells (the codes that I was proud of, now all I see there is code smells :P). But thanks to Naresh I know how to make it right.

– Chandan Kumar, Software Development Engineer, Amazon

I recently met Naresh Jain during Test Driven Development(TDD) training at my current organisation. He is very knowledgeable and also very effective as a trainer. His enthusiasm and confidence is a game-changer when it comes to motivating the workshop participants.

I’ve really benefited from his training and by applying TDD in my day-to-day work . It was a great experience and I wish, I could get a chance to work with him on a real project.

– Lokesh Gaur, Technical Lead,Samsung Research

Rarely have I met a trainer who was truly hands-on. The depth of knowledge and on-field experience of Naresh Jain is truly inspiring. His proficiency in agile techniques and TDD is bleeding edge.

We have benefited immensely in barely three days of TDD training with him. We wish he was on our team here in EMC2.

– Vimal Kumar, Principal Software Engineer, EMC2

Recently I attended Naresh’s workshop on Test Driven Development (TDD) at Amazon, Hyderabad. It was a great learning experience and an eye-opener in few cases.

He is very involved with the Agile community and has worked with a lot of industry experts. That’s the best part of getting trained by him. He is up-to-date with the latest trends and his skills are very relevant.

Naresh’s in-depth knowledge and great attitude, fueled by his passion for technology makes him a great techie to work with. I had a great experience and would highly recommend him for training/coaching or even just to have good discussions.

– Akshay Johri, Software Development Engineer, Amazon