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Agile, Stand-ups, TDD and Code Reviews

The Programmer's Paradox

Clearly, the best way to test any software is with fully automated ‘system’ testing that is thorough enough that it can be used for full regression testing. In its fullest form, it is at least as much code as the thing it is going to test, and you have to build a custom version of it, every time, for every system. But it got worse.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. Done well, TDD eliminates an entire class of programming errors. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. TDD is difficult to add to legacy codebases. Why TDD Works.

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Microservices Done Right, Part 2: More Antipatterns to Avoid

Accenture

To achieve high quality, exercise “technical excellence” when developing software: unit testing, TDD, BDD, etc. Technical excellence practices – Unit Testing, TDD, BDD, etc. To keep your system in good health proactively manage evolution of services by developing the necessary procedures and protocols.

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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

Instead, it is a tool to highlight which parts of the code have not been exercised, in order to analyze why that is. Modified condition/decisions coverage (MC/DC) exercises each condition so that it, independently of all the other conditions, affects the outcome of the entire decision. Not all situations benefit from TDD.

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Here’s Why You Should Write Unit Tests

Modus Create

The time to fix these issues could’ve been used to build new features or optimize the existing system. Bear in mind that fixing bugs without running tests could also introduce new bugs into the system. Writing some complex test cases could take some time, especially if you’re adopting TDD (Test-Driven Development).

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