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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). It’s not something that just happens by itself, and many of the “usual” ways of introducing change fail for TDD. By Emily Bache.

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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. Here’s the not-so-good news: Companies can pass the business test, but fail TDD. A quick primer on TDD.

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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. In this session, we’re joined by two folks with decades of TDD experience: Mike “GeePaw” Hill and J. Test-Driven Development. ?? He’s a software development coach who works with software organizations around the world. Reading: ?? Spike Solutions.

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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. Software engineers who are used to boolean/discrete math and TDD now need to concern themselves with data quality, representivity, and probabilistic systems.

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TDD Makes Developers and Testers into Valued Colleagues

Net Objectives

In many large organizations there is a kind of wall between development and testing. Developers do their work and “throw it over the wall” to be tested. Developers see testers either as a source of no information (“it works? This can create negative attitudes on both sides.

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6 Talks We’re Excited to Hear This Year at the Kansas City Developer Conference

OverOps

Good news if you’re a developer! The 11 th annual Kansas City Developer Conference is just around the corner , on July 18 th and 19 th at the Kansas City Convention Center in downtown Kansas City (with a pre-conference workshop day on July 17 th ). Building Quality JavaScript With Test-Driven Development.

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TDD and Legacy Code

Net Objectives

TDD is a powerful way to develop new code. However, most organizations have significant existing code that was not developed this way. In his excellent book, Working Effectively with Legacy Code, Michael Feathers outlines techniques … Continue reading "TDD and Legacy Code".