Test-Driven Development

This chapter will cover the following topics:

• A brief overview of test-driven development 
• Common myths and questions around TDD
• Whether it takes more efforts for a developer to write unit tests
• Whether code coverage metrics is good or bad
• Whether TDD would work for complex legacy projects
• Whether TDD is even applicable for embedded products or products that involve hardware
• Unit test frameworks for C++
• Google test framework
• Installing Google test framework on Ubuntu
• The process to build a Google test and mock together as one single static library without installing them
• Writing our first test case using Google test framework
• Using Google test framework in Visual Studio IDE
• TDD in action
• Testing legacy code that has dependency

Let's deep dive into these TDD topics.