Test-Driven Development becomes (necessarily) much more common as code bases grow larger, diverse and more mission critical. Every piece of logic that can be explained in your software's documentation should be testable.
Write the tests, then write the code to meet those conditions, refine, repeat
Though 100% code-coverage is rarely attainable, the closer to fully covered with unit and integration tests, the more secure and solidly structured the code will be. Moreover, the dependency nightmares that many teams wrestle with will be largely mitigated as code reliability checks take place daily when TDD is fully embraced and implemented well.
I am assuming you know the basics of "why" and "how" TDD is done. If TDD does not feel natural, you may want to check out the book Test-Driven Development by Kent Beck. Reading that, what was most impressionable to me and has aided my TDD development style are the following quotes:
"Return a constant and gradually replace constants with variables until you have the real code". -on testing complex functions or objects
"Write tests you wish you had. If you don't- you will eventually break something while refactoring". -on code bases with limited test coverage.
Do not write a few large tests to evaluate multiple ideas/functions at once. Write many small tests that test something that can be said in one short sentence: "Password Reset form successfully sends Reset email to appropriate user".
Write all the tests you know you will need and the tests you wish you had. You will wind up with quite a lot of code, but also quite a lot of "proofs", and you will be able to more confidently add to and refactor your highly-maintainable TDD-developed code.
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