Gojko Adzic's 2 day Test Driven Java Development workshop immerses you in a realistic TDD project, allowing you to learn the practices and principles of test driven development and try them out in practice. Through exercises and discussion, you will experience two days of working on an agile test-driven team, very similar to normal TDD development work. You will learn and use basic Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, refactoring and related agile practices such as continuous integration and pair programming. You will understand the reasons behind TDD and experience the benefits first-hand.

By applying these practices, you will be able to build quality software from the start, design and develop fit for purpose systems and write code that is easy to both maintain and evolve in the future.

The is a completely hands-on workshop with coding from the very beginning, interspersed by very short presentations to explain practices and issues in a wider perspective. It is based on the latest tools and current knowledge and ideas from the community.

Day 1

• Introduction to TDD
• Unit testing basics
• Using TDD with JUnit to explore and design software
• Writing efficient unit tests
• Applying mock and stub objects with Mockito to isolate tests
• Best practices and pitfalls of unit testing

Day 2

• Identifying code smells and improving the code with refactoring
• Continuous integration and detecting change
• Converting requirements into executable specifications
• Applying agile acceptance testing with FIT/FitNesse
• Best practices and pitfalls of acceptance testing