James Shore

MARCH 17, 2022

This is an excerpt from The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The full text of this section is available below, courtesy of the Art of Agile Development book club ! Join us on Fridays from 8-8:45am Pacific for wide-ranging discussions about Agile. Fast, Reliable Tests. Our tests don’t get in our way.

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

February 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto. 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.

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Gorilla Logic

MAY 19, 2021

Should you build software in-house or outsource it? It turns out that access to talented developers may be one of the most challenging pieces of the puzzle. . Ready to have a conversation about outsourcing your development to a top-ranked Agile development team? Let’s talk. As much as 51 percent of U.S.

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James Shore

APRIL 9, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Refactoring.

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Gorilla Logic

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In Agile development, a user story provides a simplified description of a software feature from an end user perspective. You can make your user stories stronger with techniques from behavior-driven development (BDD). BDD offers many short- and long-term benefits to Agile teams, including: .

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Apiumhub

MAY 31, 2022

The main goal of a software company is to deliver a quality product. Under this premise, we understand that quality is not manufactured, but is part of the development process. Developer: Implements the requirements captured by the business to create the product. Source: flatstack.com.

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NeverFriday

JUNE 7, 2013

James Shore, author of the book “The Art of Agile”, wrote an article that covers the alternatives to acceptance testing. The way you write an acceptance test is to take a user story and then write code that tests the end result of a software process. Preventing Programming Errors with TDD.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 16, 2022

A bit earlier, in 1998, a much more trivial software mistake was uncovered. Let’s talk about what quality control entails in modern software development. In software development, quality control exists alongside two other concepts: quality assurance (QA) and testing. What is Quality Control?

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James Shore

JUNE 2, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Pick two.”.

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

February 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto. “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.”

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 11, 2020

How can we train teams to consistently produce quality code without negatively impacting productivity? David Green, discuss Agile Dojos and how they can make teams more effective. The results will be more engaged team members, scrum masters, and a way of working that converts skeptics and naysayers into Agile evangelists.

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Gorilla Logic

JULY 12, 2023

Development Using Specflow in.NET Behavior-driven development (BDD) is an Agile software methodology that can bridge the gap between business-focused and technical people by ensuring that software is built around the behavior a user expects to experience when using it.

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Capgemini

MARCH 27, 2020

Tomorrow’s leaders are already starting to transform towards new delivery models that will enable them to develop more exploratory and adaptive strategies. The information system (IS) of the future supports this approach and delivers an abundance of innovative services in record time. Why is this a journey?

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Openxcell

JANUARY 20, 2021

Python programming language is prevalent among developers. It was declared as the top programming language of 2019, beating the original coding language – Java. It has facilitated the whole mobile app development process to a great extent and won the title mentioned above. Facilitates Test-Driven Development.

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James Shore

MAY 7, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. No fuss, no muss.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 10, 2019

While Acceptance Criteria is a commonly understood concept in software development, Definition of “Done” is unique to Scrum. In technical terms: through the entire system, not a description of the component layers or technical need ( as illustrated by the picture ). Usability Review Completed. Performance Tests run.

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Apiumhub

JANUARY 6, 2020

As software teams seek higher agility, the tools and techniques for software development and delivery continue to evolve every year. DevOps and CI/CD practices provide a solid framework that allows teams to release software with increased automation and with less risk.

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James Shore

MARCH 12, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Their job is to code.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Investing in Agility.

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James Shore

MARCH 10, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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.

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James Shore

MARCH 23, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Zero Friction.

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James Shore

JUNE 4, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Exploratory Testing.

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The Programmer's Paradox

JUNE 29, 2009

The debate has ended, and the conclusion is: TDD works. Test Driven Development (TDD) for those that are unfamiliar with it, is more or less a "game" to be played while coding, with a set of three "laws" orienting a programmer's efforts. The controversy is over. Sorry." -- Robert C.

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MagmaLabs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Reading Time: 11 minutes Nowadays it is relatively easy to become a software developer, but being a truly professional one is not that simple. Learn here how to be the developer that every company and every client wants to have. Being a professional developer is crucial in the software industry. Apply Clean Code.

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James Shore

MAY 26, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Feature Toggles.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Cargo Cult Agile.

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James Shore

APRIL 26, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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.

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James Shore

MAY 26, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Revised: June 25, 2021.

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James Shore

JUNE 19, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Scaling Agility.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

When business professionals understand the capabilities of the technical team, and the engineers understand what the business truly requires from the software, it results in the creation of software with real business value. That’s where behavior-driven development (BDD) comes in. But how do you achieve all this?

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Code Simplicity

MAY 10, 2014

Today there was an interesting discussion between Kent Beck , Martin Fowler , and David Heinemeier Hansson on the nature and use of Test-Driven Development (TDD), where one writes tests first and then writes code. They want to see something that will help them make decisions about their code.

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LeanEssays

JULY 16, 2015

“We are a conservative company, so we are just starting our agile transformation,” the manager told me. It struck me that the reason an organization opts for late adoption is to learn from those who go first – from the companies that bushwhacked through the agile swamp a decade ago, or the organizations that followed a few years later.

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James Shore

APRIL 29, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Reflective Design.

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James Shore

MAY 24, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Build for Operation.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Software testing is among the most critical phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). It helps ensure high quality and robust software performance. With so many test cases to run in each cycle, manual tests don’t do the trick anymore. Business-readable format for every test report.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

While producing this blog post, I collaborated with our in-house software development team. And the very first question I shot their way was: “What are some of your biggest software development nightmares?” Deadlines are any software development team’s biggest nightmare. Trust me?—?new

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James Shore

JUNE 7, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Incident Analysis.

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