TDD stands for Test-Driven Development, or Test-Driven Design. It is the practice of writing a unit test before writing code to satisfy it, in what is known as the Red-Green-Refactor cycle.
Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes a failing automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces code to pass that test and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards.
TDD tends to lead to low-coupled, highly-cohesive designs, with no more functionality than necessary to satisfy requirements. It is one of the practices of Extreme Programming. It is often said that TDD is not about testing, but rather about design.
Hello World:
def test_hello_world
assert.are_equal "hello world", hello_world
end
