by Test First Development (TFD) definition
- Test First Development (TFD) is designing tests before satisfying them.
- Test-First Development is an evolutionary approach to programming where agile software developers must first write a test that fails before they write new functional code.
- Test First development is a development style in which you write the unit tests before you write the code to test.
Test-First Development advantages :
- It promotes good design and separation of concerns.
- It improves quality and reduces bugs.
- It causes you to construct a test harness that can be automated.
- It speeds the overall development process.
- It reduces the re-work developers would have to do and gives them the courage to refactor.
Test first Development practice
- Test-first development (TFD) is an approach to development in which developers do not write a single line of code until they have created the test cases needed to prove that unit of work solves the business problem and is technically correct at a unit-test level.
- In a response to a question on Quora, Beck described reading about developers using a test-first approach well before XP and Agile.
- Test-driven development is test-first development combined with design and code refactoring.
- Both test-first and test-driven development are useful for improving quality, morale and trust and even though both are related they not the same.
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