Professionalism and Test-Driven Development

  • Authors:
  • Robert C. Martin

  • Affiliations:
  • Object Mentor

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A professional software developer ships clean, flexible code that works-on time. Unfortunately, many software developers use high-stress heroics to ship late, buggy, messy, and bloated code. Test-driven development is a discipline that helps developers behave in a more professional manner. This article is part of a special issue on test-driven development.