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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. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development.

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

Gorilla Logic

Experiences like these make many developers think about using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). BDD emphasizes collaboration between developers, testers, and stakeholders to define and deliver software that meets business requirements. For each team member, ask: Are they familiar with BDD or TDD?

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The Third Leg of Emergent Design: Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)

Net Objectives

In previous posts I discussed that the first leg of emergent design is TDD which provides code quality & sustainability. The essence of agility is … Continue reading "The Third Leg of Emergent Design: Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)".

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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 ! Fast, Reliable Tests. Our tests don’t get in our way. Test-Driven Development. Rely on Narrow Unit Tests. Buy it now!

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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. Especially when the end result is tests. In our book Design Patterns Explained we discussed how testability (how easily code can be tested) is an intrinsic property of software and is highly correlated with good design.

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Ask Miss O11y: My Manager Won’t Let Me Spend Any Time Instrumenting My Code

Honeycomb

You’ll be relieved to hear that you’re in the majority, and also that there are quick (and easy) steps you can do to prove that instrumenting your code is worthwhile. In the same way as the business is likely ok with you writing developer-based tests (unit, automation, integration), instrumentation is the same.