test driven development tdd

Goran has pointed out a plugin for Eclipse that can help those out there wanting to adopt Test-Driven Development into their process - MakeGood (screenshot here).

MakeGood provides a test runner to run unit tests on Eclipse PDT.

MakeGood strongly supports Test Driven Development (TDD) by various features.

Features in the plugin include:

Free Software Magazine: "Programming is more fun when you keep score. The extreme programming (XP) development model popularized the idea of test-driven development (TDD) with professional programmers in mind.

But TDD turns out to be even more useful for lone amateur programmers, because it provides much needed motivation in the form of more visible rewards for your work."

On the Avnet Labs blog today Ekerete has kicked off a new series looking specifically at using test-driven design to create Zend Framework-based applications:

Jani Hartikainen has posted part five of his look at unit testing in PHP (with PHPUnit) focusing on test-driven development.