Katalyst Kickstarter 🚀

This repository contains a starting project in multiple languages in order for you to get started with your TDD learning or practicing. If you see a language missing that you would like us to add please raise an issue, and we will happily add it (or just raise a pull request with the desired template).

What's in the templates?

A "blank" project to get you up and running quickly 💨
Test runner setup and example tests 👩🏽‍💻

How to use the templates

This repository can get quite large, and pulling down all the starters is not ideal. If you don't want to git clone the whole project you can follow the following steps:

Run a filtered clone that pulls nothing that you are not using:

git clone \
--depth 1 \
--filter=blob:none \
--sparse \
git@github.com:codurance/katalyst-kickstart.git

Once you've cloned the repo go into it by cd katalyst-kickstart.
To pull the starter of your desired language simply run git sparse-checkout set <directory>. eg: if I want to download the C# starter I would run git sparse-checkout set csharp as csharp is the name of the directory.
Once you've done this, you can go into the directory and start crafting ⚒️

Looking for a good kata? 🥋

Katalyst refers to katalyst.codurance.com, a website providing katas for learning, teaching and practicing test-driven-development.

Obviously you can use the templates in this repo for any TDD practice. If you want some recommendations check out these:

FizzBuzz – a perfect intro to classic TDD
Roman Numerals – another classic kata for mastering TDD fundamentals
Gilded Rose – designed to practice introducing tests and features to legacy code
Mars Rover – a great kata to practice solving a state based problem
Bank Kata – often cited as the kata for practicing Outside-In TDD
And more...