James Shore

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

By popular demand, my Faster, More Effective Test-Driven Development course in now available in an in-depth two-day version! If you’ve ever struggled with slow tests, tests that randomly fail, or difficulty refactoring, you need this course. 27 Feb 2020. James Shore/Calendar. This is a great course.

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James Shore

MAY 11, 2022

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. It’s essential to long-term Agile success. About the Book Club.

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LaunchDarkly

MAY 26, 2022

In this post, we'll examine two popular Agile methodologies and outline their pros and cons.

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Net Objectives

APRIL 29, 2019

This is an excerpt from Introducing FLEX – FLow for Enterprise Transformation: Going Beyond Lean and Agile (online book). If you are looking for an alternative to SAFe, this is it.

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

February 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto. Take a moment to think about where you were in February of 2001—at the inception of the Agile Manifesto. I was with a privately held software engineering firm focused on helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities.

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Net Objectives

JANUARY 23, 2019

The essence of agility is … Continue reading "The Third Leg of Emergent Design: Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)". The second leg is design patterns which provide insights into handling variation. The third leg is ATDD which provides us a way of discovering and clarifying the value we’ll get.

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TechBeacon

JUNE 8, 2021

Most developers believe in the value of unit tests, even if they don't always like writing them. Most of them are okay with writing unit tests while doing new development work or practicing test-driven development (TDD), but it's easy to be disciplined with greenfield development.

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Net Objectives

APRIL 6, 2019

Essentially, ATDD provides us with quality acceptance criteria in the form of test specifications. Doing this makes for … Continue reading "The Relationship Between Acceptance Test-Driven Development and Design Patterns".

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James Shore

MAY 3, 2019

I’m leading a half-day training workshop at the Agile 2019 conference , which is in Washington D.C. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an essential skill for agile teams. Without it, codebases quickly lose the flexibility needed to support agile development. on August 5-9.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It’s been nearly a year since the new edition of The Art of Agile Development was released, and I’m celebrating by making a baker’s dozen of its practices available for free! Or use this handy list: Free Introductory Material: What is Agile? How to Be Agile. Choose Your Agility. Development: Zero Friction.

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Xoriant

JUNE 9, 2015

TDD is an Agile Development technique in which developers write test cases before writing the corresponding code for the user story assigned to him. Once the code passes the Acceptance test, the code is then refactored /simplified to be used as production code. Test Driven Development Approach.

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Net Objectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

And that it’s more important to get teams actually starting Agile in the workshop than merely learning Scrum which will hopefully lead you to Agile.

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James Shore

MARCH 17, 2022

This is an excerpt from The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The full text of this section is available below, courtesy of the Art of Agile Development book club ! Join us on Fridays from 8-8:45am Pacific for wide-ranging discussions about Agile. Fast, Reliable Tests. Our tests don’t get in our way.

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James Shore

JANUARY 12, 2023

And what better way to refresh that teamwork than with the Agile Fluency Game? I’m happy to announce that I am now offering in-person and remote workshops featuring the Agile Fluency Game. About the Agile Fluency Game. The Agile Fluency Game is a fun and thought-provoking exercise for team members, managers, and executives.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 15, 2021

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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SCRUMstudy

MARCH 29, 2018

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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NeverFriday

JUNE 7, 2013

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. When it comes to testing, my goal is to eliminate defects.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 16, 2022

In software development, quality control exists alongside two other concepts: quality assurance (QA) and testing. Quality Assurance vs Quality Control vs Testing. The differences might not have much meaning for particular organizations or projects, who prefer to call all these processes QA or testing.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The importance of intelligent test automation. Reducing the cycle time for releasing multiple application versions through the adoption of Agile and DevOps principles has become the prime factor for providing a competitive edge. Outlined below are steps towards making test automation initiatives more effective and results-oriented.

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Trigent

AUGUST 7, 2022

The way of testing has transformed with the rising usage of DevOps, cloud, and agile in new tech. Setting up, Scaling, or transforming your testing organization brings challenges concerning Agile/DevOps adoption, process, and test automation implementation, or even scaling the teams’ capacity.

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CIO

JULY 12, 2022

They’re adding community-driven learning to their existing training approaches. They recognize the wealth of knowledge held by individuals in their teams, and create an agile, natural process to share this knowledge via hands-on workshops. A handful of companies have found a solution.

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The Programmer's Paradox

MARCH 16, 2023

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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Xebia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In this blog, we will take a further look at these test cases and why it is important to automate these acceptance tests. Not just from a development team perspective, but also what this can bring to your business. The post Quality pattern 2: Automate your acceptance tests appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 17, 2023

Increasing test coverage and earlier detection of defects by creating automated tests based on the defined scenarios. It enhances your existing Agile approach , synthesizing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD).

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Gorilla Logic

OCTOBER 14, 2020

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). Developers: Pass each of the test scenarios created for each story, and pass all the test scenarios. .

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Gorilla Logic

APRIL 20, 2022

As the pace of software-driven innovation expands, organizations often struggle to balance the need to deliver business value at speed and scale with the need to deliver consistent, reliable, and performant software products. What does the QA function do in a cross-functional development team? Test planning.

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Capgemini

MARCH 27, 2020

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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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 11, 2020

David Green, discuss Agile Dojos and how they can make teams more effective. The results will be more engaged team members, scrum masters, and a way of working that converts skeptics and naysayers into Agile evangelists. What is an Agile Dojo? (00:53). David Green join with me today and we are going to talk about Agile Dojos.

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Marcusoft

MARCH 11, 2024

Those are the same word in Swedish, but when I understood the difference a lot of things made sense when it comes to agile and lean stuff. The reasons we want to make the stories small are plentiful; it’s easier to manage, implement, fix, deploy, and test… just about anything we do as a software development team.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 14, 2019

As opposed to the traditional software development lifecycle (aka waterfall), today’s Agile and DevOps-based software development process is more outcome-oriented. The focus on Agile and DevOps is […]. The post Quality Engineering Has DevOps and Agile in the Driving Seat appeared first on DevOps.com.

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James Shore

JANUARY 11, 2019

I've been writing about agile software development for nearly 20 years, and most of it is available on this blog. The Agile Fluency™ Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile - 6 Mar 2018. A model for getting the most out of agile ideas. The Art of Agile Development (Book) - 2008.

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James Shore

JANUARY 11, 2019

I've been writing about agile software development for nearly 20 years, and most of it is available on this blog. The Agile Fluency™ Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile - 6 Mar 2018. A model for getting the most out of agile ideas. The Art of Agile Development (Book) - 2008.

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James Shore

APRIL 12, 2021

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. removes the delays that slow down development. Test-Driven Development” on p.XX

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Xebia

JULY 27, 2022

Clean Code : A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Agile software development is commonplace, but what is its essence? Are you curious about what agile software development entails? Extreme Programming Explained introduces a set of values, principles, and practices on developing software with agility.

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Apiumhub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Pattanayak mentioned two strategic technology trends for 2022: The first is composable apps, which are created from modular, business-focused components that simplify the development and reuse of code. Test-Driven Development for Building User Interfaces – Tyler Hawkins.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 30, 2023

In other words, you can break your software app into multiple deployments, enabling cross-functional teams to problem-solve, create, test, deliver, and upgrade independently. Faster and Safer Releases with Feature Management A critical aspect of Agile software development is determining which features are usable in production.

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Apiumhub

JULY 24, 2023

Viktor Farcic We also had the great opportunity to interview Viktor Farcic, a Developer Advocate at Upbound, host of DevOps Toolkit, and cohost of the podcast DevOps Paradox. Victor is known for his expertise in DevOps, containers, Kubernetes, microservices, continuous integration, delivery and deployment, and test-driven development.

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