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Bliki: TestDrivenDevelopment

Martin Fowler

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a technique for building software that guides software development by writing tests. It was developed by Kent Beck in the late 1990's as part of Extreme Programming. Writing the test first, what XPE2 calls Test-First Programming, provides two main benefits.

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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Why do people apply TDD? What Are the Real Reasons for Doing TDD? Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers. After many years of doing TDD daily, I think part of the reason is that some people do not fully grasp the reasons behind TDD. TDD and the Values of XP.

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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). It’s not something that just happens by itself, and many of the “usual” ways of introducing change fail for TDD.

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Agile Book Club: Test-Driven Development (with Mike “GeePaw” Hill and J.B. Rainsberger)

James Shore

Test-Driven Development is one of the few truly new Agile ideas. Originally created by Kent Beck as part of Extreme Programming, it’s a fantastic way of making sure your code does what you intended it to do. In this session, we’re joined by two folks with decades of TDD experience: Mike “GeePaw” Hill and J. Spike Solutions.

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Agile, Stand-ups, TDD and Code Reviews

The Programmer's Paradox

When the Agile Manifesto came out 20 years ago, I really liked what it said. Startups were quite agile long before the manifesto used that term. Over the decades as I watched the Agile movement mature, I was often fairly vocal about what I thought were mistakes in its direction. Then you are truly agile.

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TDD example in software development (Part I)

Apiumhub

After a while thinking about what type of TDD article to write about and, since there are many of them and very good theoretical ones (written by influencers in the world of software development), I have chosen to develop a mini-project while explaining the key points of the development of the application, basically giving you a TDD example.

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Grow professionally as a backend developer. Interview with Javier Gomez – Backend developer at Apiumhub

Apiumhub

In this interview Javier gives advices for junior developers who are hoping to grow professionally as a backend developer and shares his programming style, his favourite books and how he deals with the unexpected as a backend developer. How would you describe your programming style? And this is an extra value in a developer.