Keeping Up with the Community

TDD is a continuing exploration. New and better ideas continually arise about how to best practice TDD. I’ve personally sought to regularly incorporate new ideas about TDD over the dozen-plus years I’ve practiced it. My tests and code from 2000 disappoint me, and my tests and code from yesterday disappoint me too. That’s OK, since the cycle of TDD itself is built on the notion of continual improvement.

This section provides you with a few ideas on how to find out what’s new and interesting in the rest of the TDD world.

Reading Tests

Learning how to read code is a worthwhile skill. And an even better way to read code is to first look at the tests that describe it.

Open source projects provide an easy way to learn more about how others practice TDD. You’ll find a wide variety of styles out there, and you’ll no doubt already recognize some bad practices in the tests you read.

Don’t limit yourself to looking only at C++ tests. The core principles of TDD apply equally well to all languages.

Blogs and Forums

Be part of the discussion! The following table describes several active forums and blogs where TDD is discussed often or always: