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Article: How to Spread Technical Practices Like TDD in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

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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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture. It tends to snap back. True change involves changing hundreds of little day-to-day decisions.

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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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A Practical Approach for Shifting Left

Tenable

With a shift left approach, security is applied proactively and early in the DevOps cycle, reducing the time and cost of software development and boosting application's cyber hygiene, while facilitating CI/CD (continuous integration / continuous deployment.). A collaborative culture is key for organizations transitioning into DevSecOps.

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5 Ways to Live and Study Web Development in Great Britain Next Summer

The Crazy Programmer

Great Britain is also one of the world’s most cultural countries. You could enjoy world-famous cities like London and Oxford, as well as the beautiful Scottish highlands, while becoming an expert in web development. Let’s look at just a few ways you can live and study web development in Great Britain.

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Start with Traces, not with Logs: How Honeycomb Helped Massdriver Reduce Alert Fatigue

Honeycomb

I’m a test-driven developer and spent a lot of time with Jaeger while unit testing. The culture shift to OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and Honeycomb Dave explained that Honeycomb’s developer-centric UI made getting the engineering team on board with observability easy: “Honeycomb just worked out.

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Rails Community: The Best (Free) Asset for Your Software Needs

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 4 minutes The success of Ruby on Rails web development framework is mainly attributed to its active community, which provides a wealth of resources, support, and open-source libraries to help developers build better applications. That has something to do with the following fact.