TDD with C++ February 21-22 2013

TDD in C++

Join this hands-on workshop to learn how to do incremental design with TDD while taking advantage of the strengths of C++. The two days will be interactive, featuring lots of exercises with feedback from the trainer, discussions and lectures on the theoretical topics.

Why TDD?

Test Driven Development (TDD) is a tool for obtaining simple & flexible designs in an incremental way. TDD can help you:

if you work in an environment where requirements change often and you need to implement them as fast as possible.

if you want to keep your skills up to date with the industry trends

if you want to learn more about design

What’s special about TDD in C++?

C++ is a complex language, allowing developers to take advantage of power and effectiveness of the system. Unfortunately, refactoring and writing tests is more complicated in C++ because there are less tools for it than for Java or C#. We therefore need to learn how to effectively refactor and how to write tests in the given context.

You will need a laptop with the development environment for C++ installed and working. It is highly recommended to have git (msysgit for Windows) installed.

Who this course is for

Software C++ developers

Learning outcomes for this course

What TDD is about
The real TDD cycle
How to start doing TDD on a new system
How to figure out the tests you need to write: behavior slicing
How to write tests so that your system is correct every 5-15 minutes
How to use refactoring to emerge designs

Depending on the audience, we might discuss:

How to use stubs and mocks to isolate tests
How to test an arbitrarily large system effectively
Basics of dealing with legacy code
Architecture and TDD – when does architecture end and when does design start?

This course will not teach you how to use TDD on an existing system. We might discuss it for a short while, but we won’t get into details. If you would like to attend such a course, ask us for the legacy code workshop.

You will receive the slides and code samples after the course ends. The trainer will also recommend you learning resources – trainings, books, blogs etc. – to help you continue learning after the course ends.

Prerequisites

For best results, you should be a software developer who can easily write C++ programs containing: concrete and abstract classes, inheritance, pointers and reference types.