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Article: How to Spread Technical Practices Like TDD in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). This article outlines some of the things that actually do work and explains “Samman,” which is a coaching method used with developers.

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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. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Test-Driven Development. Second Edition cover. Programmers. Try it anyway.

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What Makes AGILE So Flexible?

SCRUMstudy

The Agile methodology is a popular project management approach for software development and implementation. Many software development companies are adopting one or more of the methods included under the Agile canopy, because of its numerous advantages. However, it should never be thought that Agile is a free-for-all.

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Kick start your Agile Transformation Journey (and be a Digital Disruptor)

Capgemini

To reach this goal, companies must embark on an Agile Transformation journey. Agile Transformation is not (only) about methodology. Becoming an agile company is a complex process. Software craftmanship: Your software development lifecycle will also change as part of the Agile Transformation journey.

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Improve User Story Acceptance Criteria with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

Gorilla Logic

In Agile development, a user story provides a simplified description of a software feature from an end user perspective. You can make your user stories stronger with techniques from behavior-driven development (BDD). BDD offers many short- and long-term benefits to Agile teams, including: .

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Alternatives to Acceptance Testing

NeverFriday

James Shore, author of the book “The Art of Agile”, wrote an article that covers the alternatives to acceptance testing. The way you write an acceptance test is to take a user story and then write code that tests the end result of a software process. Preventing Programming Errors with TDD.

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Talks with Software Development Experts Initiative Part 2

Apiumhub

In our last article , we introduced our newest initiative, Talk with Software Development Experts, a space where we interview tech experts to get to know more about them, their careers, their experience, and their interests. He is also a published author and a frequent speaker at community gatherings and conferences.