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TDD in a DbC World

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Summary

After presenting some basics of Design by Contract using Microsoft’s SpecSharp framework, Greg Young explains how we can keep the Test First mentality in a Contract First world.

Bio

Greg Young is co-founder and CTO of IMIS, a stock market analytics firm. He has 10+ years of varied experience in computer science from embedded operating systems to business systems. You can often find Greg on experts-exchange.com where he runs the .NET section of the site. He is a frequent contributor to InfoQ.

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Sep 28, 2009

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  • Tests

    by Daniel Sobral,

  • Tests

    by Daniel Sobral,

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    While I don't have anything against DbC, Greg seems to be missing a wide range of tests that do overlap with DbC. For instance, QuickCheck-inspired tests do not rely on the programmer to specify the test cases.

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