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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Test-Driven Development. We produce high-quality code in small, verifiable steps. At best, mistakes lead to code that won’t compile. Why TDD Works.

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AoAD2 Practice: Fast, Reliable Tests

James Shore

This is an excerpt from The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Fast, Reliable Tests. Our tests don’t get in our way. Test-Driven Development. Teams who embrace test-driven development accumulate thousands of tests.

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AoAD2 Practice: Refactoring

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. We revise and improve the design of existing code. It’s the process of changing the design of your code without changing its behavior. Test-Driven Development.

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AoAD2 Chapter: Development (introduction)

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Development. It’s startling how rarely software development processes actually talk about the nuts and bolts of development. Test-Driven Development” on p.XX

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

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. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Test-Driven Development. Pick two.”.

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AoAD2 Practice: Spike Solutions

James Shore

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. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. It’s a small experiment, in code, to research the answer to a problem.

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AoAD2 Practice: Continuous Integration

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. We keep our latest code ready to release. We keep our latest code ready to release. Teams using continuous integration keep everyone’s code working together and ready to release.