World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

How Unit Testing Saved My Career

Ann Laura Ecker proves that mastering unit testing will save your engineering career. Learn how adopting TDD and mocking transforms brittle, monolithic chaos into clean, maintainable architecture.

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1:18 min

Reflecting on the core motivations for writing tests

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Applying key software design rules to test code

Gil Zilberfeld · LIVE

2:50 min

Why software testing builds a strong developmental foundation

Gil Zilberfeld · LIVE

2:40 min

Confronting common excuses for avoiding unit testing

James Bender · LIVE

3:03 min

Reviewing the benefits of clean test refactoring

Gil Zilberfeld · LIVE

3:54 min

Weighing the benefits and tradeoffs of test-driven development

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