Continuous test-driven development (CTDD)Madeyski, L. and Kawalerowicz, M. ''Continuous Test-Driven Development - A Novel Agile Software Development Practice and Supporting Tool'', Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE), 2013, Angers, France, 4–6 July 2013: p.260-267. is a

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practice that extends

test-driven development Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process relying on software requirements being converted to test cases before software is fully developed, and tracking all software development by repeatedly testing the software against a ...

(TDD) by means of automatic test execution in the background, sometimes called

continuous testing Continuous testing is the process of executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline to obtain immediate feedback on the business risks associated with a software release candidate.

.Saff, D. and Ernst, M. D. ''Reducing wasted development time via continuous testing'', Fourteenth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, 2003, Denver, USA, 17–20 November 2003: p.281-292.

Practice

In CTDD the developer writes a test first but is not forced to execute the tests manually. The tests are run automatically by a continuous testing tool running in the background. This technique can potentially reduce the time waste resulting from manual test execution by eliminating the need for the developer to start the test after each phase of the normal TDD practice: after writing the (initially failing) test, after producing the minimal amount of code for the test to pass and after refactoring the code.

Continuous testing tools

* Infinitest open source

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plug-in * NCrunch commercial continuous testing plug-in for

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* Autotest - continuous testing for

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* AutoTest.NET - autotest for .NET * AutoTest.NET fork for CTDD * Mighty-Moose - packaged version of AutoTest.NET * Wallaby.js - continuous testing for

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* PyCrunch — continuous testing for Python, with

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plugin

References

External links

Continuous Test-Driven Development - A Novel Agile Software Development Practice and Supporting Tool
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