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TDD and Design Patterns

Net Objectives

Similarly, TDD was first promoted around the same time in history as part of eXtreme Programming. Some have suggested that these two points of view stand in opposition to each other, saying Design patterns are about up-front design, while … Continue reading "TDD and Design Patterns".

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

What programming languages really need is a ‘DWIM’ instruction,” the joke goes. “Do Programming is demanding. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were a tool that alerted you to programming mistakes moments after you made them—a tool so powerful, it virtually eliminated the need for debugging? TDD isn’t perfect, of course.

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AoAD2 Practice: Fast, Reliable Tests

James Shore

With TDD, you run the tests as often as one or two times every minute. If they don’t, you won’t be able to get feedback within 1-5 seconds, and that’s crucial for the TDD loop to work effectively. The other part is to program your infrastructure wrappers to be able to isolate themselves from the outside world. Incident Analysis.

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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? Net), or Behave (Python). Share a demo of all the tools and processes, using your team’s programming language. What’s BDD?

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

Natural languages, on the other hand, are infinitely more expressive than programming languages, query languages, or even a UI that users interact with. Neural nets are also inherently stochastic, because GPU calculations around floating point operations are inherently nondeterministic. Early access programs won’t help you.

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Interview with Evgeny Predein – CEO of Apiumhub

Apiumhub

He has been one of the former practitioners of Agile Methodologies, particularly eXtreme Programming with a great experience in difficult practices like TDD, Continuous Integration, build pipelines and evolutionary design. It starts building software with a focus on the architecture, applying best practices, and TDD & CI.

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

Next, mix in even more bugs by with concurrent programming. It turns out to be a net gain, resulting in higher quality results for less cost and time. In an early analysis of a company practicing a variant of Extreme Programming (XP), they reported an average reduction from 2,270 defects to 381 defects, an 83% decrease.