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title: "Real world test driven development"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/16/real-world-test-driven-development.md"
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published: "2003-09-16T15:05:00"
updated: "2003-09-16T15:05:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Peter gives an excellent example of doing real-world Test-Driven development using NUnit 2.1. It's all about simplicity. This example is good because it's not really an example. It's something he actually had to do, and…"
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# Real world test driven development

By Roy Osherove September 16, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 16, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[Peter gives an excellent example](http://www.peterprovost.org/weblog/permalink.aspx?guid=457ece41-473e-4509-8e08-6aed7d345bc8) of doing real-world Test-Driven development using [NUnit](http://www.nunit.org/) 2.1. It's all about simplicity. This example is good because it's not really an example. It's something he actually had to do, and he just shows how he started doing it.

Very nice. It gave me lots of confidence in how I write my unit testing code. It's practically the same technique. Teeny-tiny steps. I find the amount of bugs I find and fix  before they turn into all-nighters staggering.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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