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Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Beck Signature Series) by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book has been in my Amazon pre-ordered list for quite a while and I was looking forward to this. I found the title alone already excellent. Steven and Nat (authors of jMock) are well known expert TDD practitioners, so I was looking forward to what they had to say. The book was better than I had expected. The book consists of 5 parts. The first part of a very quick introduction to TDD and jMock. The second part discusses the tdd cycle in more detail. The third part (150 pages) is a very large example of growing a piece of software. The fourth part discusses topics on how to sustain TDD and the last part covers some advanced topics. In this review, I'll skip part 1 as it was short and nothing special. Part two covers the TDD cycle and the link to evolutionary design. Steve and Nat have a design style that focuses almost purely on the interactions between classes which are most frequently tested using expectations on mock objects (which, as authors of jMock, they have lots of experience with). Most notable from part 2, for me, were the classifications of objects that they used, the strong focus on interaction and mocking (more than I usually have when test-driving) and their la

Who reads Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Beck Signature Series)?

Author

Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce

Publisher

Addison Wesley; Addison-Wesley Professional

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780321574442

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Engineering, Computer Science

Rating

4.17 / 5 (1,512 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14