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How Test-Driven Methodologies Reduce CI/CD Lead Time

DevOps.com

Modern development environments, in which rapid continuous delivery is facilitated by automated continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines, require thorough and automated testing in development prior to integration.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

In many organizations, automated testing lags behind and becomes a bottleneck for successful continuous delivery. Either tests do not provide enough confidence or companies take a very traditional approach, resulting in releases either introducing substantial risks or becoming costly.

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Discover 2022 DevOps trends with CircleCI data report

CircleCI

Focusing on testing, whether it’s practices like test-driven development (TDD), or integrating validation into your normal development process at all phases of the SDLC, will give you confidence, even when headcount is low. This automation is the critical path to achieving change validation.

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Quality Control: Using Acceptance Testing to Guarantee Product Quality

Altexsoft

Other handy tools for automated acceptance test creation include JBehave , behat , Specflow , and more. Adopt Acceptance Test-Driven Development. There are three popular Agile testing methodologies: Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), and.

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

You can’t really write unit tests for this (nor practice TDD). This means shipping sooner, observing the results, and wrapping your observations back into the development process. ML engineers need to spend more time learning how to develop products and concern themselves with user interactions and business use cases.

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Well-tested code: in search of meaningful coverage

CircleCI

The shift-left methodology imagines the software development process as a timeline and advocates for conducting tests earlier in the software development process rather than only at the end. Many teams take this to the extreme with test-driven development (TDD), which involves writing tests before writing any code at all.

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Benefits of feature toggles or feature flags

Apiumhub

Championed by influential Martin Fowler, continuous delivery is a software development discipline in which software can be released to production at any time. Feature flagging enhances continuous delivery and continuous integration by making “continuous” more achievable.