book "Test-Driven Development: By Example"
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"Test-Driven Development: By Example" is a foundational software engineering book that popularized and systematically teaches the practice of test-driven development through practical, step-by-step coding examples.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| "Test-Driven Development: By Example" | 1 |
| book "Test-Driven Development: By Example" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7666408 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: book "Test-Driven Development: By Example" Context triple: [Kent Beck, knownFor, book "Test-Driven Development: By Example"]
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Extreme Programming Explained
Extreme Programming Explained is a foundational book by Kent Beck that introduces and details the principles, practices, and philosophy of the Extreme Programming (XP) agile software development methodology.
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Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
"Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices" is a foundational software engineering book by Robert C. Martin that explains agile methodologies through object-oriented design principles, design patterns, and best practices for building maintainable code.
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The Pragmatic Programmer
The Pragmatic Programmer is a highly influential software development book that offers practical advice, best practices, and philosophical guidance for writing maintainable, high-quality code and growing as a professional programmer.
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the book "Apprenticeship Patterns"
"Apprenticeship Patterns" is a practical software craftsmanship book that offers concrete patterns and guidance for developers to deliberately grow their skills and careers through an apprenticeship mindset.
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E.
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship is a highly influential software engineering book by Robert C. Martin that teaches principles and practices for writing readable, maintainable, and high-quality code.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: book "Test-Driven Development: By Example" Target entity description: "Test-Driven Development: By Example" is a foundational software engineering book that popularized and systematically teaches the practice of test-driven development through practical, step-by-step coding examples.
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A.
"JUnit Pocket Guide"
"JUnit Pocket Guide" is a concise reference book that introduces and explains effective unit testing practices in Java using the JUnit framework.
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B.
Extreme Programming Explained
Extreme Programming Explained is a foundational book by Kent Beck that introduces and details the principles, practices, and philosophy of the Extreme Programming (XP) agile software development methodology.
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C.
Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
"Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices" is a foundational software engineering book by Robert C. Martin that explains agile methodologies through object-oriented design principles, design patterns, and best practices for building maintainable code.
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D.
The Pragmatic Programmer
The Pragmatic Programmer is a highly influential software development book that offers practical advice, best practices, and philosophical guidance for writing maintainable, high-quality code and growing as a professional programmer.
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E.
the book "Apprenticeship Patterns"
"Apprenticeship Patterns" is a practical software craftsmanship book that offers concrete patterns and guidance for developers to deliberately grow their skills and careers through an apprenticeship mindset.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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programming book ⓘ software engineering book ⓘ |
| approach |
example-based learning
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iterative development ⓘ test-first development ⓘ |
| author | Kent Beck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes | red-green-refactor cycle ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
continuous feedback
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simple design ⓘ small, safe steps in coding ⓘ |
| explains |
continuous refactoring
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writing minimal code to pass tests ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
incremental design
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small refactorings ⓘ writing tests before code ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Money example
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Patterns for Test-Driven Development NERFINISHED ⓘ xUnit example ⓘ |
| influenced |
adoption of test-driven development in industry
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agile software development practices ⓘ software craftsmanship movement ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
extreme programming
NERFINISHED
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refactoring practices ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing test-driven development
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systematic TDD workflow description ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| publisher | Addison-Wesley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Extreme Programming Explained
NERFINISHED
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | three parts ⓘ |
| subject |
agile software development
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refactoring ⓘ software development ⓘ test-driven development ⓘ unit testing ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
programmers learning TDD
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software developers ⓘ software engineers ⓘ |
| teachesPractice | test-driven development ⓘ |
| teachingStyle |
example-driven
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step-by-step coding examples ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
automated testing
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unit tests as specification ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: book "Test-Driven Development: By Example" Description of subject: "Test-Driven Development: By Example" is a foundational software engineering book that popularized and systematically teaches the practice of test-driven development through practical, step-by-step coding examples.
Referenced by (2)
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