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2 - From Requirements to Tests

Learning Objectives:

After this lecture, you will be able to:

• Explain the overall purposes of requirements analysis
• Recall the three major dimensions of risk in requirements analysis
• Explain the connection between requirements analysis and user stories
• Explain the basics of Test-Driven Development
• Explain the connection between conditions of satisfaction and testable behaviors
• Begin developing simple applications using TypeScript and Vitest

Important Dates:

• Individual Project 1 Due Wednesday, January 21 by 11am (EST)

Lecture Slides:

• Requirements Analysis Slides PDF, PPT
• Test-Driven Development Slides PDF, PPT

Activity

• TDD Activity

Tutorials

• Installing a Development Environment
• Getting Started with TypeScript
• Writing Tests with Vitest

Resources

• Podcast: Kent Beck on Software Engineering Daily - An interview with Kent Beck (creator/evangelizer of TDD) about his time at Facebook and the relationship between Facebook and TDD.
• INVEST criteria for user stories
• Value Sensitive Design
• Domain modeling made functional - the first section in Chapter 2, “Interview with a Domain Expert,” has a worked example of soliciting a client’s needs for software.
• Project Overview