James Shore

MARCH 17, 2022

Fast, Reliable Tests. Our tests don’t get in our way. Test-Driven Development. Teams who embrace test-driven development accumulate thousands of tests. The more tests you have, the more important speed and reliability become. Rely on Narrow Unit Tests. Details here.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. In theory , all software is debuggable. There is a much longer list of things that make software less than 100% debuggable in practice.

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Apiumhub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

There were numerous topics covered in this online event, and in this article, I would like to go through a few of the sessions in the junior track, such as Composable Microfrontends, React Hooks, TDD with User Interfaces, and Web Performance. Test-Driven Development for Building User Interfaces – Tyler Hawkins.

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James Shore

JANUARY 31, 2019

If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. To improve code and test practices. If waiting for defects to escape is too risky for you, have experienced QA testers conduct exploratory testing and conduct root-cause analysis on the results. James Shore/Blog.

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Xebia

MARCH 10, 2022

In software development this can be translated into ‘prevent bugs from ending up in the codebase’. An example of the second category would be test – driven development where a test case is created before any code is developed and the tests need to pass before code can be submitted.

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James Shore

APRIL 9, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. We revise and improve the design of existing code. That’s what everybody says: entropy is inevitable, and chaos eventually turns your beautifully imagined, well-designed code into a big mess of spaghetti. Test-Driven Development. Refactoring.

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Honeycomb

JULY 26, 2022

You’ll be relieved to hear that you’re in the majority, and also that there are quick (and easy) steps you can do to prove that instrumenting your code is worthwhile. For most languages and frameworks, adding in basic auto-instrumentation is a few lines of code. Observability-Driven Development + Test-Driven Development.

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I was with a privately held software engineering firm focused on helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities. Some were not born yet, others mid-flight in our IT careers, and still others moving toward our mature technology years. 2011–2020 and Beyond. 2011–2020 and Beyond.

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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. Tasks are created with the definition + agreed scenarios.

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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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Coveros

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

. “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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CircleCI

JANUARY 10, 2020

In this interview, we spoke to CircleCI Software Engineer, Jacque Garcia. I’m a software engineer on the X Team. One is confidence in my code. What are you able to do when you’re confident in the code you’re writing? What builds your confidence in your code? We hope you enjoy it.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. In theory , all software is debuggable. There is a much longer list of things that make software less than 100% debuggable in practice.

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Habitable Code

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This article is part 6 in a series in which I’m doing a well-known code kata in the “TDD as if you meant it” style. Last time, I decoupled the code from the prices of A and B. Thanks for reading Habitable Code! But it is also the simplest way to make the current set of tests pass.

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Henrik Warne

AUGUST 20, 2017

I recently found out about the book Developer Testing – Building Quality Into Software by Alexander Tarlinder , and I immediately wanted to read it. Even though I am a developer at heart, I have always been interested in software testing (I even worked as a tester for two years).

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 11, 2020

How can we train teams to consistently produce quality code without negatively impacting productivity? Announcer: Welcome to The Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy, high performing software teams. So, let’s take one of them, I think you said unit testing, is that right?

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James Shore

MARCH 12, 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, 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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InnovationM

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the realm of modern software development, testing is indispensable. Among the plethora of testing frameworks available, Jest stands out as a powerful and developer-friendly tool for testing JavaScript applications. It ensures the reliability, stability, and quality of our codebases.

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CodeSignal

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

But what if you’re more interested in giving the candidate a question that’s more open-ended, maybe one that doesn’t have just one definitive answer? For these kinds of needs, we suggest free-coding questions. And either way, there will be a saved replay that can be reviewed later at your convenience.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 25, 2023

At a glance, it’s clear that the prompts Xu Hao uses to generate working code are very long and complex. Writing these prompts requires significant expertise, both in the use of ChatGPT and in software development. First, note the overall strategy Xu Hao uses to write this code. His first prompt is very long.

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Xebia

JANUARY 30, 2024

While rigorous software development practices like comprehensive automated testing, and even Test Driven Development (TDD), combined with consideration for edge cases, can guard against many issues, there’s always the possibility of unforeseen errors. The potential for errors is vast. Exit early.

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Gorilla Logic

JANUARY 9, 2020

Many software development teams struggle to build a user interface (UI) automation testing platform that delivers both stability and reliability. In this blog series, I will explain how to build a basic UI automation framework combining Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Selenium with Python. environment.py

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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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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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Gorilla Logic

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Program Increment (PI) Planning, following the definition provided by Scaled Agile, “ is a cadence-based, face-to-face event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train (ART), aligning all the teams on the ART to a shared mission and vision. ” . But what is a more practical definition? The team can focus on writing code.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 18, 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. I haven’t integrated the new code yet.”. I’m going to deploy the new build on their test bed so they can play with it.”. “I says Valentina.

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Habitable Code

JULY 29, 2022

To recap the 4 rules, code that is “simple” (ie. habitable) must satisfy the following criteria: Passes all its tests Expresses our intention Says everything once and only once Has nothing superfluous The first thing to note is that many people list rules 2 and 3 in the opposite order than I have. Nothing else matters.

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James Shore

APRIL 26, 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. Computers don’t care what your code looks like. If the code compiles and runs, the computer is happy.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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. There’s no objective measure of software productivity [Fowler 2003], but from experience, I’d estimate a 10-20% performance dip at first.

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CircleCI

APRIL 27, 2021

The next step for getting more confident in your deployments is diligently adding both unit tests and integration tests any time you fix a bug or add a new feature. Fully adopting the Test Driven Development (TDD) practice helps, as this ensures that any new or changed code will always have tests.

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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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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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. Modern software development takes a lot of skills. Your feedback is appreciated! But at last, you ship. At least it‘s Ops’ problem now.

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James Shore

MAY 24, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Our software is secure and easy to manage in production. Create stories for making your software easier to monitor, manage, and secure. Don’t save operations and security stories for the end of development. It’s better to keep your software ready to release.

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James Shore

JUNE 7, 2021

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.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

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. Its benefits—even the ability to release software more frequently—come from working differently, not from working faster. Brooks 1995].

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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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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.

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