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Sustainable TDD: Part 1

Net Objectives

TDD is typically part of an agile process. In TDD, a new requirement always starts out as a new, failing test or “specification.” We write the test … Continue reading "Sustainable TDD: Part 1".

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What Is TDD?

Net Objectives

I am heartened by the surge in TDD training. To me TDD is the 2nd most important thing for devs to learn-ATDD being the 1st TDD’s not just the automation of unit testing. TDD’s formulation of tests, prior to code, drives design. High quality code is easy … Continue reading "What Is TDD?".

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5 Tips for Successfully Implementing Behavior-Driven Development in Your Team

Gorilla Logic

It enhances your existing Agile approach , synthesizing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD). For each team member, ask: Are they familiar with BDD or TDD? Do you have Agile-certified team members and technical leads? Net), or Behave (Python). What’s BDD?

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AoAD2 Practice: Fast, Reliable Tests

James Shore

This is an excerpt from The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The full text of this section is available below, courtesy of the Art of Agile Development book club ! Join us on Fridays from 8-8:45am Pacific for wide-ranging discussions about Agile. With TDD, you run the tests as often as one or two times every minute.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. 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. Why TDD Works.

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Lean-Agile Newsletter – June 20, 2019

Net Objectives

First for the techies: This book is meant to be a lightweight companion to the TDD practitioner. These pages are loosely organized, except where … Continue reading "Lean-Agile Newsletter – June 20, 2019". Each entry is a page long at most.

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Why TDD is more about design, emergence & sustainability than testing

Net Objectives

With a name like TEST-driven development you’d expect TDD is mostly about testing. This is why the 1st mantra … Continue reading "Why TDD is more about design, emergence & sustainability than testing". Especially when the end result is tests.