TDD Conference 2021 - Which is better to Code by Contract: TDD or API-first? - Meenakshi Dhanani

First International Test Driven Development took place on July 10th.

In this series, I will include every talk together with my notes and further reading.

Hopefully, a lot of readers will watch and rewatch the talks, as they are worth several reviews.

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Bio

Meenakshi Dhanani works as a Developer Advocate at Postman where she advocates best practices for Postman, the larger API community, and an API-first approach to software development. She was previously a software consultant at ThoughtWorks, where she trained employees and worked on projects applying XP (extreme programming) practices - TDD, CI/CD, pair programming by the book.

TL;DR: TDD and API-First are complementary techniques. We should embrace contracts.

Talk

My Personal notes

• We make cakes by contracts we agree (the blueprint).
• A contract is an agreement.
• We should always focus on the contract and not the implementation to avoid overengineering.
• Designing by contracts leads to good design from the user perspective.
• With contracts, we have more predictable integration.
• Some Code by contract alternatives are: -- TDD -- API-First development -- BDD -- Design by Contract.
• on TDD writing the tests first, avoids focusing on implementation early.
• TDD is mistakenly focused on the tests instead of how it guides software development.
• We play on the workplace using a mock server.
• The emphasis is on what the API wants to expose
• We quickly compare TDD with API-First. They are complementary. -- We can use them in tandem.

Speaker Links

• Twitter @mdhananii
• Medium@meenakshi-dhanani
• LinkedIn @meenakshi-dhanani
• Postman
• Workplace

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