Faster Workflow with Testdriven Development – Torsten Zielke at PyConDE 2022

• Faster Workflow with Testdriven Development Talk by Torsten Zielke at PyConDE 2022

Goals

• knwoledge to apply TDD
• know benefits
• apply TDD in real world projects
• faster workflow

Benefits of TDD

• testing gives free detailed documentation
• short cycles of working product
• easy to test code is easier to maintain
• onboarding of new members is easier
• fearless deployment

Project: API for URL shortener backend

Test building workflow

1. failing test (red)
   • make test fail
2. make test work (green)
3. refactor
   • make test beautiful

Why

• incremental changes
• no new functionailty without failing test
• forced to think about what we do

Additional Sources

• Slides