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TDD stands for Test-Driven Development, or Test-Driven Design. It is the practice of writing a unit test before writing code to satisfy it, in what is known as the Red-Green-Refactor cycle.

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TDD Red-Green-Refactor and if/how to test methods that become private

I can see their point, but I have some problems with this when I try to follow the "Three Laws of TDD", and use the "Red - green - refactor" cycle. … Is TDD (with the rapid red-green-refactor cycle) simply not compatible with private methods? Or is there a fault in my design? …
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