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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

If we were to take it one step further, where test automation is not only a tool to validate what we have made, but rather a way to write self-testing code , we find practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). As Dave Farley and Arjan Molenaar wrote: “TDD is not about writing unit tests”.

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6 Crucial Issues for Legacy.NET App Modernization

Datavail

Establishing an IT culture. Modernizing legacy applications is the perfect opportunity to reform your broader IT and engineering culture as well. Consider establishing internal coding standards that will make testing and long-term maintenance easier. Conclusion.

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Functional vs non-functional software testing

CircleCI

In the user acceptance phase of software testing, developers provide part or all of the application to end-users or their representatives to model real-world interactions and functionality. Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption.

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Build cloud infrastructure from your CI pipeline with Pulumi

CircleCI

Cloud engineering brings the cloud closer to application development, applying engineering practices and principles to infrastructure and innovating and collaborating faster across the entire team. Pulumi is an infrastructure as code platform you can use to help create a cloud engineering culture in your organization.