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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

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Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. Here’s the not-so-good news: Companies can pass the business test, but fail TDD.

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Agile, Stand-ups, TDD and Code Reviews

The Programmer's Paradox

It all has to be very reactive; you keep fiddling with the code until it gets traction. Under those conditions, it doesn’t make sense to cross all the t’s and dot the i’s as the life expectancy of the code is weeks or months. Some people invented a fun little game called “test driven development” (TDD).

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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

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Hit me baby one more time : Manish also writes about Google, which got its second penalty from India’s antitrust watchdog, this time $113 million for what the organization said was anticompetitive practices with Play Store policies. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. The first was a $161.9

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TDD and Legacy Code

Net Objectives

TDD is a powerful way to develop new code. However, most organizations have significant existing code that was not developed this way. This “legacy code” is often difficult to test because it was not designed to be testable in the first place.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste. To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more.

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TDD and Code Coverage

Net Objectives

It’s not unusual these days for development organizations to adopt a code coverage requirement. This is usually expressed as a percentage: at least X% of all code developed must be covered by tests.

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TDD and Reported Defects

Net Objectives

Most organizations have some type of reporting mechanism allowing customers to alert them to defects they have encountered. Typically, a “trouble ticket” or similar artifact is generated, and someone is assigned the task to 1) locate and then 2) fix the errant code. TDD views this very differently.