{"id":17,"date":"2004-06-25T01:04:40","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2005-06-07T23:12:26","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T22:12:26","slug":"test-driven-development-a-practical-guide-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Test-Driven Development: a practical guide &#8211; book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Test-driven development (TDD) has become very popular in recent months. Until now there was only one textbook on the subject:  Kent Beck&#8217;s.  &#8220;test-driven development: A Practical Guide&#8221; by David Astels, was published in July 2003 and complements Beck&#8217;s original TDD work. This book is part of The COAD Series, named after Peter Coad, Borland&#8217;s Senior Vice President and Chief Strategist. The book itself is a little over 550 pages long and offers up-to-the-minute advice on how TDD can change your development and testing philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Read the review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/bug\/tdd\/review.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read my review of Dave Astels&#8217; TDD book.  First published Nov\/Dec 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-tdd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}