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Software Testing and Agile

Coveros

Take a moment to think about where you were in February of 2001—at the inception of the Agile Manifesto. I was with a privately held software engineering firm focused on helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities. We called it “Test Transformations”. 2011–2020 and Beyond.

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Taking an Extreme Approach to Software

Coveros

. “Extreme Programming turns the conventional software process sideways. Rather than planning, analyzing, and designing for the far-flung future, XP programmers do all of these activities—a little at a time—throughout development.” At that time, optimizing your Waterfall software process was all the rage.

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A Practical Approach for Shifting Left

Tenable

As a critical part of DevSecOps, shifting left has become a key aspect of the modern software development process. Traditionally, security was applied at the end of the software development lifecycle (the right side) and treated as an afterthought. Adopt a test-driven development approach .

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AoAD2 Practice: Pair Programming

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Developers, Whole Team. Do you want to waste half your time sitting in sullen silence watching somebody else code? Their job is to code.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO

From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD).

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AoAD2 Practice: Incremental Design

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. It’s Not Just Coding. Computers don’t care what your code looks like. If the code compiles and runs, the computer is happy.

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AoAD2 Practice: Incident Analysis

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Despite your best efforts, your software will sometimes fail to work as it should. Despite your best efforts, your software will sometimes fail to work as it should. In reality, failure is a consequence of the entire development system in which work is performed.