TDD - How to really do it? about events HOT 6 CLOSED

TDD
We all have heard about it, and in principle TDD is easy, right? You "just" write the tests for your logic before start coding. How cool is that?

However we all have seen teams claiming to be doing TDD when all they do is writing some test cases at the end of the coding.

But let's don't go into easy criticism...

• What is holding teams back?
• Why is TDD not working for them?
• Is there something that could facilitate the transition to really doing TDD?

Let's have a fishbowl and try to find out if, after all, there is a way to really do TDD once you find out that it's actually hard.

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Hi everyone, just contributing with suggestions...
I have seen few people having problems to start with TDD and then I realized that one of problems is the link between TDD and polymorphism, it may be a good start to discuss about it. I created an example on my github with no implementation to show it, I don't think the code is the goal of this discussion though.

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Alright! One more! Thank you everyone for participating! https://www.meetup.com/Software-Crafters-Sydney/events/259277914/

Here's the mind map JD drew:

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@cassiodsl it would be great to touch on this subject while we discuss TDD! Don't forget to bring it up! 👍

While we're here, what are we looking at in terms of dates? Any suggestions? Trying to keep the monthly cadence, March 13th is a Wednesday again. What do you think? ping @felixcastanar

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Hi!

I pretty like the idea of showing some examples with code. After all most of the people in the room are developers!

I guess we will need a big monitor for that.

In addition, I would suggest having a white board to capture the main ideas (I still remember how beautifully it was done for the "IT Recruitment" fishbowl!).
By the way, I took some notes on the last meetup, however I'm not sure on how to share them as there is no ticket open for it. Any suggestions?

And yes, 13th of March, Wednesday, sounds like a great date good to me! :)

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Great! I'll try to get someone to facilitate the fishbowl that can also sketch… 👍

Regarding you notes, we don't really have a good way of sharing, unfortunately. Very open to suggestions! I can think of a few options for now:

1. Even though #23 is already closed, we can still comment on it;
2. You can add it as a comment on the meetup page (the one specific to our last gathering https://www.meetup.com/Software-Crafters-Sydney/events/258492283/) – or, perhaps better yet, start a discussion regarding the very topic at https://www.meetup.com/Software-Crafters-Sydney/discussions/;
3. Post it to a wider (worldwide) audience on the Software Crafters Slack group (http://slack.softwarecrafters.org/)

I guess you can post to all three and we can see what works… 😄

I'll go ahead and schedule our next gathering for March 13th, then!

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