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Introduction to Test and Behavior Driven Development

Successful developers need to not only build the right software but build it right. To know your software works correctly, you need to test each unit of code. One of the best methods for this unit-level testing is test driven development. This course provides a detailed overview of test driven development (TDD). First, you’ll learn what automated testing is and why it is essential for building robust applications resilient to failure. You’ll explore the basics of testing, including test cases, testing levels, and the traditional release cycle. You’ll learn about TDD and its complement, behavior driven development (BDD): TDD tests individual units of code while BDD tests how these units work together. Then you’ll examine TDD in detail. You’ll explore TDD’s benefits, concepts, and popular tools, and you’ll hone your new testing skills through hands-on labs. You’ll create TDD test cases by writing test assertions and building test fixtures, and you’ll run these test cases by using the Nose testing package. You’ll then practice more advanced TDD methods such as increasing code coverage, generating and using fake data, and testing mock objects.

Status: Code Coverage
Status: Test Data
IntermediateCourse21 hours

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VL

5.0Reviewed Jul 24, 2023

Just excellent! Good hands-on in the lab! Learned a lot! Rafano is THE instructor!

GU

5.0Reviewed Jun 16, 2023

Best tutorial with clear explanation and much practice. Thanks

KE

5.0Reviewed Mar 24, 2023

The course has a great contentThe content is well structuredAnd well presented

IR

5.0Reviewed Aug 4, 2024

Omg this course is great! Thanks a lot for all the effort you put into this, it's greatly appreciated, I learned a lot! :D

ST

5.0Reviewed Jun 19, 2023

This course was well planned and easy to follow. The demo lessons were very helpful with understanding how tests should be conducted. Great class, and great instructor.

KB

4.0Reviewed May 14, 2023

Lectures were good. The IDE did not have data or instructions for the labs in week 3.

NH

5.0Reviewed Feb 17, 2023

Absolutely useful and relevant for directly applying to my current project at work.

HA

5.0Reviewed Aug 9, 2022

I​t's great and I get more Knowledge from this Course I wish for the advance Course

EL

5.0Reviewed Apr 20, 2024

Very good. Try to complete the final project without copying the solution for a better understanding of what is a test-first approach.

DS

5.0Reviewed Mar 26, 2024

Great hands-on learning experience across a wide range of topics for individuals entering code development.

UC

5.0Reviewed Feb 8, 2023

Great course! You'll learn a great deal about TDD. Write fakes, mock a few classes and use fixtures in your tests. You'll learn how to mock external services and make your tests self-sufficient.

AB

5.0Reviewed Dec 21, 2025

The course offered by Coursera is Amazing. The Couch was good & the way he delivers & the way he teaches was good. But the review system is very slow. Which will let peers do the review.

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