A development method where you write a test first, then implement code that satisfies it.
A development method that repeats a cycle of writing a failing test first, writing the minimal implementation to pass it, and then refactoring. This cycle is also called red-green-refactor, and writing the test before the implementation has the side effect of naturally pushing the design toward something more testable -- loosely coupled and broken into small units.
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