Improving Your Test Driven Development in 45 Minutes

Discover effective strategies to enhance your Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices in this 45-minute conference talk from Devoxx. Learn how to address common challenges such as long-running tests, miscommunication in requirement gathering, difficult test setups, and mock abuse. Explore practical solutions including Hexagonal Architecture, Domain Specific Language implementation, modularity, and in-memory implementations. Gain insights on improving test pyramids, enhancing readability, and simplifying environment requirements. Whether you're an experienced TDD/BDD practitioner or looking to start implementing these methodologies, acquire valuable techniques to make your testing process more efficient and effective.

Intro
Whats going on
The typical problems
Too slow
Modules
What are modules
Database
Hashmap
Integration Test
The trick
Behavioral verification
Implicit and explicit information
Preparing testing data
Creating classes
Writing integration tests
Groovy trait
Important decisions
Exploring tests
Adding a new category
Tree of categories
Groovy
Add
Move
Move without groovy
Move with groovy
Draw a map
Whiteboard approach
Clear image
Domainspecific languages
Who is patched
Which one is better
Problems with unit testing
Simple trick
MongoDB
Test Run
Unit Tests
Questions
Problems