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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. 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. TDD is difficult to add to legacy codebases. Why TDD Works.

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Cypress: a new generation of end-to-end testing

Perficient

Cypress has become a popular tool for web applications due to a number of distinctive advantages such as user-friendly interface, fast test execution, ease of debugging, ease of writing tests, etc. Selenium is aimed more at QA automation specialists, while Cypress is aimed merely at developers to improve TDD efficiency.

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No Fighting In This (Agile) Dojo with M. David Green

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Convincing skeptics to try a new system (32:12). Maybe you’re a software manager, and you say, “Man, I’ve been trying to get my developers to do TDD for years. David: Well, I think the first question I would ask a manager in that position is why do you want your engineers to do TDD? How David’s dojos differ from others (18:30).

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AoAD2 Practice: Feature Toggles

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Kent Beck calls it a “Keystone” [Beck 2004] (p. Eventually, of course, you’ll want to see the code run, either to fine-tune the user interface (which can be difficult to test-drive), for customer review, or just to double-check your work. That’s the keystone.

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AoAD2 Practice: Feature Flags

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Beck 2004] (p. Eventually, of course, you’ll want to see the code run, either to fine-tune the user interface (which can be difficult to test-drive), for customer review, or just to double-check your work. TDD isn’t perfect, after all. That’s the keystone.

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

Codegiant

Due to Agile’s highly encouraging face-to-face interaction , you can bring everybody on the same page. Due to Agile’s methods of continuous iteration and feedback received, documentation isn’t highly encouraged as the team gets information based on how the market reacts to the product. Dynamic Systems Development Method ?—?Since

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