Mock objects have been well covered in various literature, notably in Astels’ Test Driven Development: A Practical Guide. We won’t repeat that discussion here; instead we provide a brief description ...

Programmer and author Dave Johnson shared an anecdote on his Weblog last year about what happened when his 5-year-old son walked up behind him while he was coding. “He saw the JUnit green bar on the ...

Traditionally, developers have used test-driven development (TDD) to validate applications before implementing the actual functionality. In this approach, developers follow a cycle where they write a ...

There are some good reasons that test-driven development isn’t as widely used as it is discussed. Everyone is talking about test-driven development. Is anyone actually doing it? TDD has been embraced ...

In the technology field, what seems niche today often becomes tomorrow’s industry standard—and that’s definitely true of software development. From test-driven design and AI-powered code reviews to ...

Spec-driven development is quietly changing how embedded engineers work with AI coding agents. If you have handed a coding agent a prompt, you know the failure mode. The code compiles. It looks right.