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AoAD2 Practice: Incremental Design

James Shore

Test-Driven Development. Test-driven development encourages you to think about and improve your design at nearly every step. To be specific, when you first create a design element, whether it’s a new method, a new class, or even a new architecture, be completely specific. Test-Driven Development.

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AoAD2 Practice: Incident Analysis

James Shore

Kerth 2001] (ch. In this case, a closer look at the event reveals that, although the team used test-driven development and pairing for production code, they didn’t apply that standard to their scripts. In addition, consider establishing the Vegas Rule: What’s said in the analysis session, stays in the analysis session.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Key Differences And Definition?—?Which Model Is Better?

Codegiant

The Agile methodology definition was introduced by 17 software developers gathered in Utah back in 2001. Test-Driven Development ?—?TDD TDD encourages you to write automated code first and then develop just-enough code in order to pass the test later. Rapid Application Development ?—?If

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The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition

James Shore

So, what allows me to do this—what allows me to do this show, this software development show every week, and what allows me to write this book—is the people who hire me for training and consulting. In 2001, 17 of the lightweight methodology proponents met at a ski resort in Utah to discuss unifying their efforts. The Agile Manifesto.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

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In 1999, Kent Beck proposed a radically new approach to software development in the book “Extreme Programming Explained” (Beck, 1999). In 2001 the Agile Manifesto (Beck et al., 2001) gave this new approach a name – “Agile.” Put the tests into a test harness for ongoing code verification.