TDD/BDD screencast/video resources

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I've recently finished watching the Autumn of Agile screencasts and I'm looking for more material of similar scope. Basically, I'm looking for screencasts that present TDD/BDD process while developing somewhat "real life" applications (or parts of them) - so no 20 minute intros please. I'm surprised not to find anything like that though. If you know of any resources that fit the requirement, please list them.

JHurrah · Answer 1 · 2010-04-18T09:04:03.720

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Brett Schuchert from Object Mentor just posted a series of videos on TDD

The videos are meant to be watched in order.

A series of videos on creating the shunting yard algorithm in C# using Resharper, Visual Studio 2008 and TDD.

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I'm currently going through them all, and it's great stuff. Highly recommended. – Erik Öjebo Apr 18 '10 at 18:04
I recorded a series of videos detailing how I've tested my indie-hacker software business over the years — codebase is big enough to be a real business but still comprehensible (about 14k LOC) — see here https://www.semicolonandsons.com/tag/testing – Jack Kinsella Aug 05 '20 at 16:07

score 26 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 01 '13 at 11:41

Here are some videos specifically about Cucumber and RSpec:
BDD with Cucumber
Cucumber: Automating the Requirements Language You Already Speak
Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec
Working Outside-in with Cucumber and RSpec
Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development

Some general videos about TDD/BDD:
Test-Driven Development and Refactoring - Part One
Test-Driven Development and Refactoring - Part Two

One of the best free videos on the Ruby Object model
(I bought the Pragmatic series on metaprogramming after seeing this):
The Ruby Object Model - Dave Thomas

Here are some sites I've gotten some great videos off of:
http://confreaks.net/videos
http://www.bestechvideos.com/
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/community/scotland-on-rails/

Oh, and don't forget Google videos.

And here's a great little blog post with links to 20 articles on Cucumber:
http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2009/04/09/20-articles-on-cucumber-and-a-free-beverage-recipe

Esko Luontola · Answer 3 · 2012-09-08T21:00:40.320

Basically, I'm looking for screencasts that present TDD/BDD process while developing somewhat "real life" applications (or parts of them) - so no 20 minute intros please.

Let's Code is a screencast "reality show" series where I'm developing real projects using TDD, evolutionary design and similar practices - the way I normally work. Right now there are three screencasted projects:

Jumi - a new test runner for the JVM, aiming to eventually replace JUnit as the de facto test runner (over 10k SLOC codebase, Java)
Dimdwarf - a distributed application server for the needs of MMO games (over 15k SLOC codebase, mixed Scala and Java)
a simple text adventure game to show some programming basics (only 9 episodes, Java)

Each episode is about 25 minutes long and new episodes are released a couple per week (as of Sep 2012 there are over 260 episodes, over 130 hours).

Let's Play: Test-Driven Development is a screencast series where James Shore is using TDD in developing a small application. The current project is an application for estimating personal long-term finances (a Java Swing application). Each episode is about 15 minutes long and new episodes are released daily (as of Sep 2012 there are over 200 episodes, over 50 hours).

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Miško Hevery, who is a developer at Google, has some great videos at his site.

Dave Astels has a Google tech talk called "Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development".

At Dnr TV there are two episodes with JP Boodhoo, where he gives an introduction to test driven development:

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+1 for the mention of Dave Astels' "Beyond Test Driven Development" That video should be required watching for anyone that's even thinking of doing TDD... mostly so they won't waste any time with TDD but will instead go directly into BDD. – Nov 07 '10 at 18:09

score 7 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 28 '10 at 01:11

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I've really been enjoying GeePawHill's DoubleDawgDare screencasts. They're refactoring legacy code, not TDD, but he definitely has the TDD ethos, and - well, they're worth a watch even if they're not quite what you're looking for.

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neves · Answer 6 · 2011-03-22T14:32:43.263

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I've bought Kent Beck's TDD screen casts. He is a very good teacher. I like how he focus in other aspects not just the mechanical steps of using the XUnit framework.

Here is a detailed review of the screencast.

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score 6 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 26 '11 at 08:32

James Shore has a YouTube video series where he builds a small piece of software from scratch using TDD and recording every step of the process. To my mind this should be required viewing to anyone who's thinking about starting with TDD, I only came across it recently and I'm surprised it doesn't have more exposure. There's 120 15-minute videos - that's a LOT of material.

score 5 · Answer 8 · answered Apr 14 '10 at 20:20

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Kent Beck started to work on his own TDD screencast. So far he put two unedited pieces of his tutorial on Vimeo but he promises to publish full edited versions soon.

Follow him on Twitter or Vimeo.

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The TDD-intro series is now available for $25 at http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-kbtdd/test-driven-development – Kjetil Klaussen Jul 06 '10 at 20:32

score 5 · Answer 9 · answered Oct 30 '11 at 08:38

Efficient Rails Test-Driven Development - by Wolfram Arnold

Class 1
- the economics of testing
- Testing in layers, design patterns
- Toolbox: RSpec with Rails
- RSpec & Models
Class 2
- A culture of testing: Why TDD? How to TDD?
- Testing & Date Dependencies
- Toolbox: Fixtures, Factories, Mocks & Stubs
Class 3
- Controller testing
- View, Helper, Routes Testing
- How much is enough? How much is too much?
Class 4
- Refactoring code & tests, custom matchers
- API Testing
- Remote data setup
- Cucumber for API testing & documentation
Class 5
Class 6
- Integration frameworks (Cucumber, Webrat, Capybara, and Selenium)
- Integration testing with Selenium (advantages and problems)
- Page Objects
- Locators (Selenium, CSS and XPath locators)
- RSpec Custom Matchers
- Testing for Access Control

score 4 · Answer 10 · edited Feb 25 '13 at 22:11

The guys over at TekPub make some great screencasts, and their 'Concepts'-series covers both unit testing and BDD.

They just released a new screen cast "Full Throttle: TDD with Brad Wilson" for $12 where Brad works on a billing subscription system using TDD.

Rob Conery also throws in some curve balls during the session to help show how TDD can adapt to change. Unfortunately, these are single episode series so there is only one, but it is an hour long.

score 3 · Answer 11 · answered Aug 04 '10 at 13:21

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We have a series of free and paid BDD screencasts at http://bddcasts.com. We're primarily ruby developers and our tools are cucumber and rspec.

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I don't want to be unkind but your BDDcasts should not be a pay 'cast. It's basically you guys recording yourselves pair programming while you updated one of your own apps. The problem is it's not structured for learning and the quality is very low. Watching the free demo (http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/32656993) I know there is no way I could sit through a full 30 minutes of you guys not explaining anything and mumbling. I have to say I'm actually a little offended you would charge for this. Again, don't mean to be unkind but you really need to rethink this. – Nov 07 '10 at 17:44

score 2 · Answer 12 · answered Jan 06 '13 at 14:29

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Destroy All Software - topics on testing are mostly based on real projects, performance, refactoring and testing principles are described as well.

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score 2 · Answer 13 · answered Feb 07 '10 at 15:34

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Dimecasts

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score 2 · Answer 14 · answered Jul 29 '11 at 17:38

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I did a 25 minute screencast of the Bowling Kata in BDD. It is here: http://www.screencast.com/t/cnelplcoyjw

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score 1 · Answer 15 · answered Jan 28 '10 at 14:54

Take a look at Katacasts. From the site:

The Katacasts series consists of performance katas, done as screencasts, by Enrique Comba and me, Corey Haines.

I haven't watched them yet, but knowing that Corey is big advocate of TDD and Craftsmanship, and at least one of the pages explicitly mentions doing the kata as TDD, I think you may find what you are looking for.

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