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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Here’s a secret: it’s not for the tests. Learn about the actual goal and values hidden under the surface of Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers. It is a vehicle to drive development. Why do people apply 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. It’s not perfect, but it’s a powerful tool for creating robust and reliable software. Test-Driven Development. ?? Fast, Reliable Tests. ?? Discussion prompts: Test-Driven Development works best when you take small steps.

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

The agile methodology, which facilitates collaboration between stakeholders, teams, and customers during software development, is fast gaining prominence in today’s enterprises. The Scrum master leads this process, providing guidance to the team and product owner and ensuring agile practices are followed by team members.

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Applying Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) in a Bank

Agile Alliance

My guest for this interview was Sebastián Ismael, a software professional and visiting lecturer from Argentina. Sebastián has been been with Grupo Esfera, a boutique software consulting company in Buenos Aires, for eight years. He is passionate about the technical side of Agile, specially eXtreme … Continued.

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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. Write the functional code until the test passes.

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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. No wonder, then, that software is buggy.

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Agile Book Club: Evolutionary Design

James Shore

Software typically becomes more expensive to change over time. That’s a problem for Agile, because if change becomes significantly more expensive over time, the Agile model doesn’t make sense. So instead, Agile teams can use evolutionary design: a way of starting simple and improving your design as you go.

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