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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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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (Addison-Wesley, 2014) and Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). Her mission is to bring agile joy to the software testing world and testing joy to the agile development world.

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Apiumhub organizes the Global Software Architecture Summit in Barcelona, October 10, 2019

Apiumhub

He was involved in the early Agile movement and one of his passions is helping organizations recognize the impact of their internal organization and communication on the long term viability of their software products – putting interactions in place to prevent the accumulation of technical debt and lost business opportunities.

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AoAD2 Practice: Incremental Design

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Agile makes a challenging demand of its programmers: every week or two, programmers should finish four to ten customer-centric stories. As “A TDD Example” on p.XX Second Edition cover. Incremental Design.