Much of *Ops deals with the art of state management against an existing black-box base, which is not a bad skill to have as regards test-driven development. The

Much of *Ops deals with the art of state management against an existing black-box base, which is not a bad skill to have as regards test-driven development. The big step is to take ownership of that base: storage, memory, exception handling and instrumentation are your next areas of investigation. Then you can move on to API and client development.