Today I'll be doing a review of the book "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests" by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce.
Most people are aware of the TDD cycle of Fail - Pass - Refactor, this book uses this concept at a bigger level by doing acceptance tests with this cycle, which drives smaller cycles for integration and unit tests. It has a very good example solution which helps to understand how everything fits together on a larger scale.
This is the first book I have read since university. It was proposed to me not long after I joined the company I currently work at and is one of the inspirations for the way I work and this blog.
I'm going to talk about the C# version of the book (Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#), but it also applies to the Java version (Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices). Both books were written by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob).
Next up in the book review series: Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design by Robert Martin. Although I've loved a lot of the other books by Uncle Bob, I have to admit this one disappointed me and I'll explain why in this book review.
I'm starting this book review series with the infamous book about design patterns. For those who don't know which book I'm talking about: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, written by Erich Gamma, John Vlissides, Ralph Johnson, and Richard Helm.
This book has been considered by many as a reference that everybody should read (and I count myself in these as well). I do think the book does not need to be read in it's entirety for the reader to use it's concepts.