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Why Test-Driven Development?

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This chapter defines what it means to test software. It highlights the advatanges that automated tests have over manual testing, the counterintuitive benefits of writing tests before the code they are meant to verify, and how Test-Drivent Development, the discipline of designing software by writing tests first, can greatly improve your coding workflow and productivity.

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Lodi, G. (2021). Why Test-Driven Development?. In: Test-Driven Development in Swift. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7002-8_1

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