Abdul Wahid Tanner - Test-Driven Development with C++

A simple guide to writing bug-free Agile code

Abdul Wahid Tanner

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Abdul Wahid Tanner

I'm Abdul Wahid Tanner and have been programming C++ since 1992 and teaching others how to code for almost as long. I first became interested in TDD around 2005 and decided to implement a board game that I liked playing using strict TDD. At the time, I was using C# and a test framework that was able to find and run the tests. It wasn't until about 2014 that I decided to see whether I could use C++ and TDD together. There were many choices for tools that helped run C++ tests, but they were big and full of features. I wanted something small and simple, so I wrote a unit test library in about 650 lines of code. The code in this book is a complete and better rewrite of that early code. I hope you find the code in this book useful and decide to use it in your projects. However, even if you decide to use one of the commercial tools, you should still benefit from the understanding that this book provides about how the tools work and how to follow the TDD process.

Serban Stoenescu is a software developer specializing in C++. He is currently working for Everseen on some projects that require OpenCV and some machine learning. In the past he has worked for SkAD Labs on a CAD project with OpenCASCADE, Atigeo on Big Data projects in Java, and Alcatel-Lucent (now part of Nokia). At Alcatel-Lucent, he was also a trainer, teaching Rational ROSE. He is the co-author of Towards the Impact of Design Flaws on the Resources Used by an Application, a paper at ARMS-CC 2014. Currently, he is also a Udemy instructor, his most popular course being C++ Unit Testing: Google Test and Google Mock. His other courses are CMake from Zero to Hero and C++ Machine Learning Algorithms Inspired by Nature.