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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.

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The Economics of TDD

Dzone - DevOps

From a management standpoint, Test-Driven Development (TDD) can be a difficult sell. It involves a relatively large upfront investment, has no obvious business benefits, and (most important of all) the customer is paying for functionality, not tests.

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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. You’ve passed the tests for product-market fit, financials and competitive differentiation well enough that they now want to look under the hood. A quick primer on TDD. Image Credits: Sema. For example, U.S.

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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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TDD, Unit Testing and the Mainframe

DevOps.com

Unit testing is like exercise: Companies know it’s good for you and you should do it, but given their druthers, they’d rather avoid the effort and just get to the benefit. After all, making unit testing a standard practice in a company’s software development process is probably the […]. I wish I could say it’s otherwise.

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5 Tips to Structure DevOps Testing Strategy

Dzone - DevOps

The sole purpose of DevOps is to automate and simplify the overall software delivery process. At present, most organizations focus on structuring a booming DevOps testing strategy that initiates the adoption of agile best practices related to Continuous Integration (CI). Identify the Correct DevOps Testing Arrangement.

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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.