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title: "An updated diagram of the TDD process from the upcoming 3rd Edition of Art of Unit Testing"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2019/11/12/an-updated-diagram-of-the-tdd-process-from-the-upcoming-3rd-edition-of-art-of-unit-testing.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2019/11/12/an-updated-diagram-of-the-tdd-process-from-the-upcoming-3rd-edition-of-art-of-unit-testing"
published: "2019-11-12T07:39:22"
updated: "2019-11-12T07:39:22"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "As part of the work on Art of Unit Testing in JS, here’s a diagram I’ve created to explain Test Driven Development. Any feedback is welcome:"
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/"
---

# An updated diagram of the TDD process from the upcoming 3rd Edition of Art of Unit Testing

By Roy Osherove November 12, 2019

As part of the work on Art of Unit Testing in JS, here’s a diagram I’ve created to explain Test Driven Development. Any feedback is welcome:

![tdd-process.png](https://osherove.com/img/sq/5KIX73Y6-tdd-process.png)

## Lessons on this topic

- [Introducing TDD](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/the-art-of-unit-testing-and-tdd-in-java/introducing-tdd/) · The Art of Unit Testing and TDD in Java
- [Common Questions and Answers about Test Driven Development](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/tdd-and-bdd-in-ruby/common-questions-and-answers-about-test-driven-development/) · TDD and BDD in Ruby


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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.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

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/