Should I Use Tdd?
Test-Driven Development Is Increasingly Widespread and There Is Good Empirical Evidence That It's a Beneficial Practice. Tdd Reduces the Number of Bugs in...
Test-driven development is increasingly widespread and there is good empirical evidence that it's a beneficial practice. TDD reduces the number of bugs in production and improves code quality. In other words it makes code easier to maintain and understand. Also, it provides automated tests for regression testing.
Is TDD really useful?
When you write tests, you write more code, but studies have shown objectively that good test coverage with TDD can reduce bug density by 40% — 80%.
When should I use TDD?
TDD lends itself really well to when you have a pure logic function that you need to write. When the work you need to do has a clearly defined set of expected inputs and outputs, it's a great signal that you should use TDD to build out your tests and code.
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