TDD & Software Design

A path through tests, boundaries, and the design decisions that make code safer to change.

8 published parts

Reading order

Part 1 of 8

24 May №18

TDD Isn't About Bugs — It's Your Permission to Refactor

Three years ago, I had a crisis of confidence with test-driven development.

Software design & testing 7 min

Part 2 of 8

30 Jun №24

Value Objects & Entities in TypeScript: Building Blocks That Can't Break

Last time, I showed you how TDD gives you permission to refactor. But there’s a problem I glossed over: what happens when the same validation rule appears in five different places?

Software design & testing 15 min

Part 3 of 8

7 Jul №27

TypeScript DDD Aggregates & Repositories

Last time, in Value Objects & Entities - Building Blocks That Can’t Break, we made invalid states impossible for a single User. Email validates itself. Age validates itself. The User entity composes them and manages identity.

Software design & testing 15 min

Part 4 of 8

16 Jul №31

Repository Updates in TypeScript: Locks and Optimistic Concurrency

The earlier Aggregates & Repositories article deliberately kept persistence small. This article builds on its Order, Result, and snapshot examples to handle two requests changing the same aggregate.

Software design & testing 8 min

Part 5 of 8

21 Jul №33

DDD Aggregate Boundaries and Persistence in TypeScript

The previous articles — Value Objects & Entities and Aggregates & Repositories in TypeScript in particular — made a few choices without naming them: Order owns its lines, only OrderRepository persists them, and a customer appears in an order as an ID rather than as a loaded object.

Software design & testing 9 min

Part 6 of 8

26 Jul №36

I Stopped Mocking Everything in TDD

I once spent three hours debugging a test that was 80% mock setup.

Software design & testing 12 min

Part 7 of 8

29 Jul №38

The Result Pattern: Why I Stopped Throwing Exceptions

Every production Node app has seen an Unhandled Exception crash the process. If exceptions are so great, why does every function have an invisible contract that says “I might throw, good luck figuring out what”?

Software design & testing 10 min

Part 8 of 8

1 Aug №40

TDD in the Age of AI: Who Tests the Tests?

I use Codex and Pi daily. They write code faster than I can read it. Lines appear on my screen in seconds that would have taken me twenty minutes to type.

Software design & testing 8 min