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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. It’s not perfect, but it’s a powerful tool for creating robust and reliable software. Rainsberger.

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August 6th in Washington, DC: How to Introduce Test-Driven Development to Your Team (Workshop)

James Shore

This session is geared towards Scrummasters, coaches, managers, and anyone else who’s in a leadership role and isn’t a programmer themselves. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an essential skill for agile teams. Without it, codebases quickly lose the flexibility needed to support agile development.

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Don't Measure Unit Test Code Coverage

James Shore

If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. To improve code and test practices. If waiting for defects to escape is too risky for you, have experienced QA testers conduct exploratory testing and conduct root-cause analysis on the results. James Shore/Blog.

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Don't Measure Unit Test Code Coverage

James Shore

If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. To improve code and test practices. If waiting for defects to escape is too risky for you, have experienced QA testers conduct exploratory testing and conduct root-cause analysis on the results. James Shore/Blog.

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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. Take a coach interested in trying Agile, assemble a team of novices, shake well, and bake for three years. Test-Driven Development.

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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Jacque Garcia, CircleCI Software Engineer

CircleCI

In this interview, we spoke to CircleCI Software Engineer, Jacque Garcia. I’m a software engineer on the X Team. One is confidence in my code. What are you able to do when you’re confident in the code you’re writing? What builds your confidence in your code? We hope you enjoy it.

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AoAD2 Practice: Continuous Integration

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. We keep our latest code ready to release. We keep our latest code ready to release. Most software development efforts have a hidden delay between when the team says “we’re done” and when the software is actually ready to release. Refactoring.