Happier TDD with testdouble.js

This presentation was recorded at NodeConf Oslo 2016 on June 4th, 2016.

Test driven development is a soft skill

The purpose of this talk is to give a quick, light-on-its-feet introduction to an unorthodox discipline of test driven development (“TDD”) that I’ve termed “Discovery Testing”.

You may enjoy the content of this talk if:

• you’re interested in testdouble.js, but don’t want to start by diving into its relatively exhausting documentation
• you’re familiar with TDD and for whatever reason didn’t have a tremendously positive experience with it
• you’ve ever been confused by styles of testing that make heavy use of test doubles (e.g. mock objects)

Related resources

Here are a few links of things either referenced in the talk or relevant to its content.

• testdouble.js
• teenytest
• The unusual spending kata
• A 4-part screencast series which demonstrates discovery testing in Java with a Game of Life
• A comparison between td.js and sinon
• The google results for tdd failure