Net Objectives

APRIL 23, 2019

TDD often uses unit tests to drive behavior into the system. However, sometimes acceptance tests are used to do this. When these are automated, this can give us clues as to how to make our work in TDD more reusable.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

In many organizations, automated testing lags behind and becomes a bottleneck for successful continuous delivery. Either tests do not provide enough confidence or companies take a very traditional approach, resulting in releases either introducing substantial risks or becoming costly. These principles tell us our tests should be: Fast.

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Net Objectives

MARCH 12, 2019

As consultants, we are often asked to review the work of others. One of the things we review is the quality of the design of some part of the system. Often the developers understand and agree that these qualities are important, but they are not … Continue reading "“Good” Tests in TDD".

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Net Objectives

MARCH 20, 2019

Because TDD is “test” driven development, people tend to think of TDD as “writing tests first.” In fact, TDD is not a testing activity per se. It is the creation of an executable specification prior to the creation of each system element. Unit tests are a very useful by-product of this process.

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Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Last month we talked about TDD example in software development ( part 1 ) and TDD first cycle ( part 2 ). In this new TDD and primitive obsession article, we will focus on removing duplication and reinforcing the constructors of our entities, something key to have a robust system. TDD: primitive obsession.

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Net Objectives

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The type and nature of the tests that you write in TDD helps you to understand how strongly your system is encapsulated. Everything the system must do, and yet might not, needs a test. The more your tests are about … Continue reading "TDD and Encapsulation".

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Net Objectives

APRIL 4, 2019

Developers often remark that the tests may contain the same algorithms that the production code does. This feels like redundancy and makes them wonder if TDD is promoting bad practices. Example: A system that converts Fahrenheit to Celsius.

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Net Objectives

MAY 1, 2019

TDD is typically part of an agile process. This means that we embrace change, that new requirements flow into the team’s work either on a time-boxed pulse, or through some kind of pull system (like Kanban). In TDD, a new requirement always starts out as a new, failing test or “specification.”

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Net Objectives

MAY 7, 2019

TDD depends on a strong connection between the automation of the test suite and the system itself. The suite should record the specification that is implemented in the system, and the connection allows this to be confirmed at any point. The problem is automated tests pass by default.

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Net Objectives

APRIL 17, 2019

In TDD, tests take actions such as Setup, Trigger, and Verify. Each of these pieces must successfully execute in order for the specification to be verified as accurate to the current behavior of the system. If there is an external dependency, the test can become vulnerable to a failure of that entity.

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James Shore

MARCH 29, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development. It’s test-driven development, and it actually delivers these results. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. Why TDD Works.

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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. With TDD, you run the tests as often as one or two times every minute.

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Net Objectives

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I mentioned earlier that TDD offers qualitative measurements about production code, namely that a large average fixture size can be used to measure relative coupling in a system. Similarly, tests can reveal whether, and to the extent, that the Single Responsibility Principle has been adhered to.

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MARCH 27, 2019

The term “workflow” in this sense is meant to indicate the way two system elements interact when performing a task. Often these interactions themselves are not exposed outside the system, and so only their resulting behavior should be tested. This is as true in TDD as it is in traditional testing.

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Honeycomb

JUNE 23, 2020

The most successful software development movement of my lifetime is probably test-driven development or TDD. With TDD, requirements are turned into very specific test cases, then the code is improved so the tests pass. Using TDD to Drive Better Code. TDD has some powerful things going for it.

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Net Objectives

APRIL 11, 2019

Tests often establish example values used to compare the behavior of the system with the actual behavior indicated in the requirements.

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Net Objectives

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Project Managers and Product Owners are sometimes dubious about the development team doing TDD. They are concerned that the team will slow down because they’ve been burdened with additional work, and that developers might “game” the system with bogus tests to satisfy the process.

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Xoriant

JUNE 9, 2015

TDD is an Agile Development technique in which developers write test cases before writing the corresponding code for the user story assigned to him. Once the code passes the Acceptance test, the code is then refactored /simplified to be used as production code. What is the primary goal of Test Driven Development (TDD)?

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Honeycomb

JUNE 21, 2023

The biggest is Test-Driven Development (TDD) , thanks to Kent Beck and his Xtreme Programming crew. TDD says you write tests before writing any code, because this pushes you to design the code in ways that are testable, with APIs that are usable. TDD is a great design practice. In testing, more isn’t always better.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. To improve code and test practices. If you're trying to improve your team's coding and testing practices, perform root-cause analysis 1 of escaped defects, then improve your design and process to prevent that sort of defect from happening again.

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Marcusoft

MARCH 11, 2024

The reasons we want to make the stories small are plentiful; it’s easier to manage, implement, fix, deploy, and test… just about anything we do as a software development team. For example; An audit log statement for every action in the system - is too big and will not deliver any value in a long time. And watch the test pass.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Writing tests that help evolve a system is hard, and you get there by avoiding smart tests while preferring dumb ones. The Paradox of Smart Tests Smart is always better than dumb, isn’t it? This time we’ll look at the paradox that dumb programmer tests are superior to smart ones. Let’s dive in.

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Perficient

MARCH 31, 2024

What is Cypress Cypress is a modern JavaScript-based end-to-end (e2e) testing framework designed to automate web testing by running tests directly in the browser. However, despite the convenience, simplicity and a quick start, when we talk about Cypress tests, we still mean the code. This is where Cypress comes into play.

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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 you're trying to improve your team's coding and testing practices, perform root-cause analysis 1 of escaped defects, then improve your design and process to prevent that sort of defect from happening again.

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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 17, 2023

Providing documentation that is easy to understand for all stakeholders and can be automatically checked against the system’s behaviors. Increasing test coverage and earlier detection of defects by creating automated tests based on the defined scenarios. For each team member, ask: Are they familiar with BDD or TDD?

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 16, 2022

In software development, quality control exists alongside two other concepts: quality assurance (QA) and testing. Quality Assurance vs Quality Control vs Testing. The differences might not have much meaning for particular organizations or projects, who prefer to call all these processes QA or testing. Let’s examine them closer.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 12, 2022

After all, observability is about understanding systems, which means more than just production. TDD goes platinum. We’ve been living in a “shift-left” or “shift testing left” world for a while with test-driven development (TDD). TDD is considered the gold standard of shift-left testing for a reason.

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Xebia

MARCH 10, 2022

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. In software development this is mostly done by executing test cases against functional and deployed code.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many software engineers are encountering LLMs for the very first time, while many ML engineers are being exposed directly to production systems for the very first time. Namely, that LLMs are black boxes that produce nondeterministic outputs and cannot be debugged or tested using traditional software engineering techniques.

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Testing is a vital part of the software development lifecycle. There are many types of testing and testing methodologies: end-to-end testing, dynamic testing, integration testing, and others. This article focuses on component testing and unit testing. What is unit testing?

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Net Objectives

MARCH 18, 2019

When a test precedes development, it essentially becomes the first “client” for the behavior being developed. First, the interfaces TDD drives into the system are always client-focused. In their seminal book on … Continue reading "Tests are Client Number 1". This fact is helpful in several ways.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 30, 2023

In other words, you can break your software app into multiple deployments, enabling cross-functional teams to problem-solve, create, test, deliver, and upgrade independently. TDD Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle.

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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. When it comes to testing, my goal is to eliminate defects.

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Honeycomb

JULY 26, 2022

Is the system working? First, let’s talk about what makes a system “work.” If we don’t know that our system is running, then it’s not done. If we can’t find out how healthy our system is, we can’t give our stakeholders confidence that the system will continue functioning. What is instrumentation?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MAY 11, 2020

System Programming Book — CS241 “Intro to Systems Programming” textbook that was created in a wiki by University of Illinois students over 5 years. Subjectively, the teams experienced a 15–35% increase in initial development time after adopting TDD.

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Apiumhub

MAY 31, 2022

It must be taken into account that some business roles do not necessarily have to be technical, while developers and QAs dedicated to test automation are. Behaviour Driven Development is a software methodology that allows us to define and develop the product based on the behaviour of the system. What is BDD? Source: flatstack.com.

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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. We called it “Test Transformations”. 2011–2020 and Beyond. 2011–2020 and Beyond. 2011–2020 and Beyond.

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