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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Why do people apply TDD? What Are the Real Reasons for Doing TDD? Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers. After many years of doing TDD daily, I think part of the reason is that some people do not fully grasp the reasons behind TDD. TDD and the Values of XP.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

This article helps you challenge your automated testing and to improve upon it in a more continuous fashion. . Definition of Done – a team needs to agree that executing these tests is part of delivering changes and when changing code, new tests should be added. When writing tests, it is good to stick to the F.I.R.S.T Independent.

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

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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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

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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13 Bits of Advice for New Programmers

MagmaLabs

Write the code you would like to read. You’re not your code. Code Katas. So don’t worry if you are not familiar with the new JS Framework or the time fashion language. Writing code is only a small part of what goes into shipping production software. Not everything is coding. You got this!

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Changing How We Change Software with GeePaw Hill

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, GeePaw Hill, discuss how the doubling rate in the software industry has resulted in a complete lack of trade discipline. The doubling rate of makers has resulted in a total lack of culture in the software industry (2:12). Show Notes. Transcript. Here we go.

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Learning Lambda — Part 9

Mike Roberts

If we never need more than one instance of our function to run at any one time, Lambda will happily use just one instance of our code at a time. However if hundreds of concurrent versions of our code are necessary to handle load then Lambda will scale up automatically to support that load. No configuration or management?—?it

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