APress Deal of the Day - 20/Feb/2012 - Design Driven Testing

Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430229438 is Design Driven Testing

"Design Driven Testing brings sanity back to software development by restoring the concept of using testing to verify a design instead of pretending that unit tests are a replacement for design"

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This is a book that all J*** developers should read from cover to cover. I look forward to C# and VB.NET versions. There is a tendency in software development to go to extremes. This book helps to correct that tendency. I reccomend it also to all system architects.

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