TDD: Beyond the intro

Beyond the "red green refactor" loop of test-driven development: what is the fuss all about?"

In this session we'll cover why you should do TDD, even if you're doing a hackathon and throwing away the code. We'll look at the design goals behind the tool.

• TDD as socratic dialogue;
• TDD as mindfulness;
• Testing as reasoning.

To do that I'll start by showing you how I teach TDD, slowing down in each part and doing techniques of lazy-naming, branch reduction, and purposeful-bad-faith.

Then we shall dive into the why.