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Test and Behavior Driven Development (TDD/BDD)

4.38 ratings at edX

Overview

This course provides the fundamentals of Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD), and why it’s essential for building quality applications and preventing bugs, reducing development costs and improving performance.

What you'll learn

  • Explain the importance of testing.
  • Describe test-driven development (TDD) and explain its benefits for DevOps.
  • Develop unit tests with test assertions and test fixtures and then run the tests.
  • Improve unit testing through advanced TDD methods including coverage reports, factories, fakes, and mock objects.
  • Summarize the steps in a typical BDD workflow.
  • Describe popular BDD tools and their benefits.
  • Conduct BDD tests using Honcho and Behave.

Skills you'll practise

Test AutomationSoftware Development Life CycleSelenium (Software)Software Release Life CycleSystems Development Life CycleTest-Driven Development (TDD)ResilienceCode CoverageBehavior-Driven Development

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

  • University courses you can audit for free, with lectures, readings and practice quizzes.
  • A verified certificate from the university if you pay for it.
  • From IBM, a well-regarded name.
  • Self-paced: start any time.

Disadvantages

  • Graded assignments and the certificate need the paid track.
  • Audit access can expire a few weeks after the course ends.
  • Learning is free, but the certificate costs money.
  • Some parts (graded work, certificate) are paid.

Some points apply to every course of this kind; see how we rank.

Free to audit

  • Free: Choose "Audit this course" when you enrol: lectures, readings and practice are free.
  • Paid: Graded assignments and the verified certificate (Certificate: $99). Audit access may end after the course closes.

Before you start

This course is suitable for those with basic computer and IT literacy, and those looking to increase their current knowledge of software engineering.

Taught by

  • John RofranoSenior Technical Staff Member

IBM is in Tier 2: excellent universities and the companies that build the technology of our institution ranking (84/100).

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