---
title: "Oren is grokking Test Driven Development"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/7/19/oren-is-grokking-test-driven-development.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/7/19/oren-is-grokking-test-driven-development.html"
published: "2006-07-19T11:52:00"
updated: "2006-07-19T11:52:00"
tags: ["Agile"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Oren Ellenbogen is having various learning experiences from our last session together (I'm coaching him on Test Driven Development as part of my work ). He's writes in a clear way about his thoughts and perceptions…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Oren is grokking Test Driven Development

By Roy Osherove July 19, 2006 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 19, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

[Oren Ellenbogen](http://www.lnbogen.com/) is having various learning experiences from our last session together (I'm coaching him on Test Driven Development as part of [my work](http://www.teamagile.com/)).

He's writes in a clear way about his [thoughts and perceptions](http://www.lnbogen.com/TDDInTheEyesOfASimplemindedPreface.aspx) about Test Driven Development, and does well in trying to take in small pieces at a time.

There are tough questions to be asked (in the comments to his post you can find some), but these are answered in time, and I can promise they all have good answers.

In the mean time, you can [follow him as he shows writing a simple logical method](http://www.lnbogen.com/TDDInTheEyesOfASimplemindedPart1TheNameResolver.aspx), test-driven, while following [Unit Test Best Practices](https://osherove.com/rosherove/archive/tags/Testing+Guidelines/default.aspx) such as refactoring your unit tests, not just your code, and unit test naming guidelines.

PS

[Grokking](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok): see definition

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## About the author

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