• Clean Code Introduction
  • Clean Code and Scrum/XP
  • The Two Values of Software
  • The 5 Design Smells
• Clean Code Basics
  • Form and Names
  • Functions and Function Structure
  • Programming Paradigms Revisited
• Clean Architecture: Principles of Object-Oriented Class Design
  • Coupling and Cohesion
  • SOLID Principles
  • Package Principles
  • The 4 Rules of Simple Design
• Refactoring
  • Goals
  • Techniques (rename, move, extract, convert, etc)
  • Protect against regression
  • Legacy code: Characterization testing, seams, sprouts, etc
• Test Basics
  • Testing and Scrum/XP
  • The Test Automation Pyramid
  • Test Automation, Testing, and CI/CD
• Test-Driven Design
  • Anatomy of xUnit Frameworks; MSTest, NUnit, xUnit
  • Definition of Testable
  • The Three Laws of TDD
  • The Red-Green-Refactor Cycle
  • The Red-Green-Refactor-Commit Cycle
  • The Test-Commit-Revert Cycle (TCR)
  • Principles of TDD
• Advanced TDD
  • The Transformation Priority Premise, Test Sequence
  • Test-Doubles, Mocking
  • Stateism vs Mockism
  • How TDD drives an emergent design
• Behavior-Driven Development
  • The Gherkin Language, Feature Files
  • Integrating and Mapping BDD in Scrum/XP - Acceptance Test-Driven Development
• SpecFlow
  • Step Definitions
  • Assertions
  • Reusing Feature Files on different levels of the test pyramid
  • Managing SpecFlow in large projects

In open classroom training, we use a specific set of tools listed below. In brackets are alternatives to which we can tailor the training in case of in-house training.

Language

C# (also available in C++, Golang, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, and Scala)

IDE

Visual Studio Code (Rider)

Unit Test Framework

Visual Studio Testing Framework (NUnit)

BDD Framework

SpecFlow