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Technical Requirements

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Preparing our development environment
Installing the IntelliJ IDE
Setting up the Java project and libraries

To code along—which we highly recommend—you need to set up your development environment first. This will use the excellent JetBrains IntelliJ Java IDE, a free-of-charge Java SDK from Amazon, and some libraries to help us with writing our tests and including the libraries in our Java project.

Preparing our development environment

For this project, we’ll be using the following tools:

IntelliJ IDEA IDE 2022.1.3 (Community Edition) or higher
Amazon Corretto Java 17 JDK
The JUnit 5 unit test framework ...

Getting Started

Building the Case for TDD

Using TDD to Create Good Code

Dispelling Common Myths about TDD

Building an Application Using TDD

Writing Our First Test

Following the Rhythms of TDD

Driving Design—TDD and SOLID

Test Doubles—Stubs and Mocks

Hexagonal Architecture—Decoupling External Systems

FIRST Tests and the Test Pyramid

Exploring TDD with Quality Assurance

Test First, Test Later, Test Never

Driving the Domain Layer

Driving the Database Layer

Driving the Web Layer

Wrap Up

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Technical Requirements

Preparing our development environment