TDD in Legacy Code Outline

Legend

  • ✅ Practical hands-on work (mandatory) - this includes Sandbox Project Tasks

  • 📖 Supplementary reading (optional) - theory, concepts - you can read later

Setup Instructions

Phase 1. Pipeline in Legacy Code

Phase 2. Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) in Legacy Code

Smoke Tests
E2E Tests
Acceptance Tests
Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
  • ✅ ATDD - User Stories (coming up soon)

  • ✅ ATDD - User Stories - System DSL

  • ✅ ATDD - User Stories - External System DSL

  • ✅ ATDD - Bugs

  • ✅ ATDD - System UI/API changes

  • ✅ ATDD - External System API changes

Further work on Legacy Code
  • ✅ Comprehensive Acceptance Tests

  • ✅ Comprehensive External System Contract Tests

Phase 3. Component Test Driven Development (CTDD) in Legacy Code

  • ✅ Component Tests

  • ✅ Maintainable Component Tests

  • ✅ Contract Tests

  • ✅ Test Driven Development (TDD)

Phase 4. Test Driven Development (TDD) in Legacy Code

  • ✅ Hexagonal Architecture

  • ✅ Unit Testing

  • ✅ Narrow Integration Testing

  • ✅ Test Driven Development (TDD)

  • ✅ Code Coverage & Mutation Testing

  • ✅ Static Code Analysis

Disclaimer: The series outline above is a rough draft. As I write the articles, I may update the outline (and may take into account reader feedback and questions).

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