Summary

In this chapter, we examined how ICONIX Process and TDD can be combined to great effect. To combine these two disciplines, we have had to rewrite the rules slightly for TDD, but the basics are pretty much the same.

Using TDD on its own without any up-front design modeling is actually very rare. Even in XP a certain amount of up-front design modeling is generally used—this is normally a collaborative design workshop held just before the coding session, also known as Just-in Time (JIT) Design.^[4.] In such environments, consider using ICONIX Process as described here to improve the collaborative design process.

Finally, at the end of the chapter, we described an automated, model-driven testing process that you can use to drive a testing effort from your use case–driven models.

^[4.]Named after “Just-in-Time” compilers used in runtime environments such as Java HotSpot, and also used in quality management.