[Best of 2023] #139 - A Developer's Guide to Effective Software Testing - Mauricio Aniche

Jan 15, 2024

Mauricio Aniche, author of Effective Software Testing, discusses effective testing techniques in software development including the testing pyramid, specification-based testing, and behavior-driven design. He emphasizes the importance of developers taking responsibility for testing their code and explains the benefits of automated testing. The podcast also covers the challenge of convincing developers to write tests and the ongoing debate between integration tests and unit tests. Aniche highlights the significance of understanding program requirements and explores the relationship between specification-based testing and behavior-driven design.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

The Challenge of Convincing Developers to Write Tests

01:37 • 10min

Debate between Integration Tests and Unit Tests in Software Testing

11:18 • 2min

Understanding Specification Based Testing and Starting with Requirements

13:24 • 3min

Exploring Specification Based Testing and BDD

16:28 • 2min

“An effective developer is an effective software tester. As a developer, it’s your responsibility to make sure what you do works. And automated testing is such an easy and cheap way of doing it."

Today's clip is from Tech Lead Journal episode 139 with Mauricio Aniche, the author of “Effective Software Testing”.

In this clip, Mauricio explained how to become a more effective software developer by using effective and systematic software testing approaches. We discussed several such testing techniques, such as testing pyramid, specification-based testing, and behavior-driven design.

Listen out for:

An Effective Developer is an Effective Tester - [00:00:26]
Reasons for Writing Automated Tests - [00:01:35]
Systematic Tester - [00:04:38]
Testing Pyramid - [00:08:43]
Unit vs Integration Test - [00:11:18]
Specification-Based Testing - [00:13:48]
Behavior-Driven Design - [00:16:27]

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Mauricio Aniche’s Bio
Dr. Maurício Aniche’s life mission is to help software engineers to become better and more productive. Maurício is a Tech Lead at Adyen, where he heads the Tech Academy team and leads different engineering enablement initiatives. Maurício is also an assistant professor of software engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His teaching efforts in software testing gave him the Computer Science Teacher of the Year 2021 award and the TU Delft Education Fellowship, a prestigious fellowship given to innovative lecturers. He is the author of the “Effective Software Testing: A Developer’s Guide”, published by Manning in 2022. He’s currently working on a new book entitled “Simple Object-Oriented Design” which should be on the market soon.

Follow Mauricio:

LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/mauricioaniche
Twitter – @mauricioaniche
Website – effective-software-testing.com
Newsletter – effectivesoftwaretesting.substack.com

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