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Approval Testing

• Leap Years with Approvals
• Data-Driven Testing with Approvals
• Discover and Formulate Scenarios for the Lift Kata
• Printer Design
• Lift Kata with Approvals
• Filtering output that varies

Behavior Driven Development

• Leap Years with Approvals
• Data-Driven Testing with Approvals
• Example Mapping
• Using TDD to write a Leap Years function
• Example-guided design
• Discover and Formulate Scenarios for the Lift Kata
• Printer Design
• Double-Loop TDD
• Lift Kata with Approvals
• Gherkin intro
• Outside-in TDD

C/C++ Programming

• Supplying User Input via stdin
• Refactoring Without Tools
• Writing tests for pure functions
• Sandboxing Introduction
• TDD a state machine
• From Struct to Class
• Extracting Data Clumps
• Parameterized Tests in Doctest
• Test Fixture Introduction
• TDD a lamp microcontroller
• Test Fixture design
• Move the patient into the surgery
• Cover the patient with tests
• Refactor the Patient for Testability
• Return the patient

TextTest (Approval Testing Tool)

• Supplying User Input via stdin
• Sandboxing Introduction
• Filtering output that varies
• TDD with TextTest

Architecture

• Simon Brown's C4 model - Intro
• Modelling vs Diagramming
• Simon Brown's C4 model - Container diagrams
• The Divio Documentation System
• User Documentation and code snippets
• Architecture Decision Records

Reading Code

• Code Smells - Introduction
• Code Reading - Common Code Smells
• Code Reading - Scanning

Legacy Code

• Code Smells - Introduction
• Renaming Variables, Fields and Types
• Reading by Renaming
• Code Reading - Common Code Smells
• Identify Paragraphs in Long Methods
• Lift-Up Conditional Introduction
• Lift-Up Conditional on Gilded Rose
• Simplify Conditional
• Peel - a strategy for difficult to test code
• Strategy - Slice
• Preparatory Refactoring
• Move the patient into the surgery
• Cover the patient with tests
• Refactor the Patient for Testability
• Return the patient

DevOps

• Basic GitHub Actions
• Learn Faster By Practicing Teaching
• The three ways of DevOps

Teamwork

• Talking with Intent, Typing Syntax
• Git Interactive Rebase
• Keyboarding skills

Refactoring

• Vocabulary for Refactoring
• Replace Nested Conditional with Guard Clauses
• Misconceptions about Refactoring
• Primitive Obsession
• Refactoring Without Tools
• Renaming Variables, Fields and Types
• Design in the Red step
• Change Signature
• From Struct to Class
• Extracting Data Clumps
• Identify Paragraphs in Long Methods
• Idiomatic Code
• Keyboarding skills
• Lift-Up Conditional Introduction
• Split Loop
• Replace Conditional With Polymorphism
• Decompose Conditional
• Refactoring Golf
• Mending Law of Demeter Issues with Refactoring Tools
• Lift-Up Conditional on Gilded Rose
• Parallel Change
• Roll Up Loop
• Simplify Conditional
• Split Phase
• Split Variable
• Preparatory Refactoring
• Refactor the Patient for Testability
• Return the patient

Small Steps

• Using TDD to write a Leap Years function
• Design in the Red step
• Example-guided design
• Golden Rule of TDD
• Selecting and ordering test cases
• TDD cycles
• Test Order
• TDD a state machine
• Iterative or Incremental
• Fluency with TDD
• TDD with a list
• Make a test list
• TDD a lamp microcontroller
• Parallel Change
• Take Smaller Steps
• Triangulation
• Slicing a task using ZOMBIES
• Adding Behavior Instead Of Breaking Behavior
• Outside-in TDD

Test Design

• Asserting on Collections of Objects
• Benefits of Arrange - Act - Assert
• Test Desiderata
• Unit Tests Should Find Bugs
• Test Names - the Osherove pattern
• Test Doubles Intro
• When you need a stub
• Arrange - Act - Assert
• Parameterized Tests in Doctest
• Test Fixture Introduction
• Four Pillars of a Good Test (Khorikov)
• Parameterized Tests
• Characteristics of Unit tests
• Start with the Assertion
• Test a Bug
• Three parts of a test
• Unit Test FIRST properties
• Stubbing Dependencies
• When you need a spy
• Slicing a task using ZOMBIES
• Custom Assertions
• Test Fixture design
• Test Fixtures - Readability vs Duplication
• Styles of Unit Tests
• Refactoring test inputs with Test Data Builders
• Faking Dependencies
• When you need a fake
• When you need a mock
• Gherkin intro
• Mocking Dependencies
• When to use a Test Double

Test Doubles

• Test Doubles Intro
• When you need a stub
• Stubbing Dependencies
• When you need a spy
• Faking Dependencies
• When you need a fake
• When you need a mock
• Move the patient into the surgery
• Mocking Dependencies
• Cover the patient with tests
• When to use a Test Double

Designing Unit Testable code

• Beck's 4 rules of simple design
• The Dependency Inversion Principle
• Reading by Renaming
• Overdesign
• Writing tests for pure functions
• One function at a time, bottom up
• Testing Private Methods
• Mending Law of Demeter Issues with Refactoring Tools
• Identify and Resolve Law of Demeter Violations
• Peel - a strategy for difficult to test code
• Strategy - Slice
• Complexity / Collaborator quadrant analysis

Object Oriented Programming

• The Dependency Inversion Principle
• Overdesign
• Identify and Resolve Law of Demeter Violations

functional_programming

• Replace Loop with Higher-Order Functions

streams

• Replace Loop with Higher-Order Functions

higher_order_functions

• Replace Loop with Higher-Order Functions

design

• Replace Loop with Higher-Order Functions