Accenture

APRIL 12, 2018

It’s becoming more and more difficult to identify areas of life that don’t depend on software. Yet it may surprise you that much of the software we use every day is poorly written and designed, has little code coverage, and has created in users such low expectations that people – despite much bellyaching – simply put up with.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 24, 2019

During the next retrospective, Steve chooses a timeline to help the Team review what has happened. [ We run experiments that we hypothesize will improve the situation (Unit Testing, Test-Driven Development, Behaviour-Driven Development) and look to see if the data from these experiments supports this outcome.

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James Shore

APRIL 29, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Every day, our code is better than it was the day before. Every day, our code is better than it was the day before. Traditional approaches to design assume that, once coded, designs shouldn’t change. Look at the code you’re about to work on.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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. There’s no objective measure of software productivity [Fowler 2003], but from experience, I’d estimate a 10-20% performance dip at first.

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James Shore

MARCH 23, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. When we’re ready to code, nothing gets in our way. The deploy script will run the full test suite, and we also have a canary server that checks to see if anything goes wrong. A few minutes later, it says INTEGRATION OK , then starts deploying the code.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2018

For example code demonstrating these ideas, see my example on GitHub. When programmers use test-driven development (TDD), the code they test interacts with other parts of the system that aren't being tested. No broad tests required. Test-specific production code.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2018

For example code demonstrating these ideas, see my example on GitHub. When programmers use test-driven development (TDD), the code they test interacts with other parts of the system that aren't being tested. No broad tests required. Test-specific production code.

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