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It’s never too late to add unit tests to legacy code

TechBeacon

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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September 11th in Toronto, Canada: Faster, More Effective Test-Driven Development (Training)

James Shore

I‘m offering a day of training before the Assert(js) conference in Toronto on September 11th: Are your tests slow and brittle? Do you worry that your unit tests aren‘t actually testing anything important? If so, you could benefit from writing tests that don‘t use mock objects. 03 May 2019.

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

James Shore

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. TDD helps avoid these problems.

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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. Are you Interested in knowing who were the software development experts we interviewed?

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Software Testing and Agile

Coveros

I was with a privately held software engineering firm focused on helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities. Some were not born yet, others mid-flight in our IT careers, and still others moving toward our mature technology years. 2011–2020 and Beyond. 2011–2020 and Beyond.

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How To Hire The Right Software Developers – 7 Tactics That Actually Works

Xicom

There is a limited number of top software developers in Dubai and far too many companies and service providers trying to get their attention over Linkedin (sometimes with strategy, that is just a blank shot). . How can you efficiently manage a remote software developer team better ? It’s obvious.

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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

I recently finished Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide by MaurĂ­cio Aniche , and I really liked it. I have been coding for a long time and I think I have been writing pretty good tests for the features I have implemented. He has also worked for several years as a developer.