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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/BDD: Mocks with expectations: bad?

Perhaps this is why giving mocks with expectations isn't bad: When the sole purpose of the SUT Foo is to manipulate other objects (X and Y) in a certain way. Writing mocks with expectations within a …
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TDD/BDD: Mocks with expectations: bad? [closed]

Is using mocks in the following way a bad idea: writing tests where mocks expect certain calls from the subject under test Or even just writing mocks that return values to the subject under test if …
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TDD, configuration management, configuration patterns (PHP)

One solution that sounds vaguely reasonable stems from this 12 factor methodology page on configuration. The most focused guidance I have found so far is here in the 12 factor methodology. They sugge …
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TDD, configuration management, configuration patterns (PHP)

In short, want to follow TDD best practice. My instinct would be to have a configuration file which is read by some class. …
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GUI functional acceptance tests, making them less brittle / obstacle to further development

(Background - skip to bold statement for the crux) I'm working through the book "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests" by Freeman & Pryce, while applying it to a project I'm starting. My …
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Behat/Mink: best practice for testing strings in a web application's GUI

I'm writing acceptance tests for a web application using Behat/Mink. I want to know best practice for testing strings in the GUI. For example: say I want to test that a link exists on the homepage t …
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