# TDD Conference 2021 - On The Relationship Between Units Of Isolation And Test Coupling - Mario Cervera

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.

Let's continue...

## Bio 

Mario has been a software professional for more than a decade. He also conducted research in the field of Software Engineering, which allowed him to graduate as a PhD in Computer Science. As a strong advocate of software craftsmanship principles and values, he helps teams improve their technical practices so they can deliver higher-quality software at a sustainable pace.
  
> TL;DR: Coupling leads to fragile tests.

## Talk

%[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APFbb5MwLEU]

# My Personal notes

- Fragility is the opposite to Robust when we talk about tests.
- Fragile tests are tests that break when they should not break.
- Tests are the specification of behaviour.
- if we are not changing the observable behaviour of tests, and they break, the tests are preventing our refactorings.
- We want to avoid, at all costs, fragile tests that fail when they shouldn't.
- [Coupling](https://maximilianocontieri.com/coupling-the-one-and-only-software-design-problem) is the main cause of fragile tests.
- Overspecified software makes more assumptions than necessary.
- In a mocking approach, we need to change a lot of tests when we refactor.
- if we make our attributes public to test them is a smell, we are testing accidental structure.
- On Behavior-centric view, the true unit of isolation is not unit tests, but behaviour.
- Refactoring is the key step in TDD.
- Tests are code even more important than production code.

>  The outcome of this understanding is that a test-case per class approach fails to capture the ethos for TDD. Adding a new class is not the trigger for writing tests. The trigger is implementing a requirement.

_Ian Cooper_

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Mario has also written an article on his talk.
Please rush to read it [here](https://mariocervera.com/talk-1st-international-conference-tdd#ckrnf3pkq0bg5fws15gwgg8a8).

# Speaker Links

- Twitter [@macerub](https://twitter.com/macerub) 
- LinkedIn [@mariocervera](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariocervera) 
- @[Mario Cervera](@macerub)

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# Index

%[https://maximilianocontieri.com/tdd-conference-2021-all-talks]

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