The Programmer's Paradox

MARCH 16, 2023

As a great example, Stand-ups always come to mind. We see the same kinda thing with unit testing. Clearly, the best way to test any software is with fully automated ‘system’ testing that is thorough enough that it can be used for full regression testing. It just doesn’t scale up or formalize properly.

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2024

This toolset (working title: Truffleswine) allows us to retrieve relevant data from systems quickly, which in turn helps us ask the right questions sooner and clarify business cases for improvement using actual data. Commitment Once we are confident, we consider how we can integrate the feature into the system.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2024

It will improve project management, help with requirements creation, assist developers with coding, cover the system with auto-tests, report defects, and improve deployment. Let’s look at a couple of real-life examples, which illustrate this complexity. A combination of factors led to this failure.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

In the rush to build, test and deploy AI systems, businesses often lack the resources and time to fully validate their systems and ensure they’re bug-free. In a 2018 report , Gartner predicted that 85% of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams responsible for managing them.

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Henrik Warne

JULY 12, 2021

The focus is on how to structure systems to make them easy to understand and work with. The author defines complexity as anything related to the structure of a software system that makes it hard to understand and modify. An example is when you have implemented a message protocol with a sender and a receiver. Complexity.

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James Shore

MARCH 17, 2022

Fast, Reliable Tests. Our tests don’t get in our way. Test-Driven Development. Teams who embrace test-driven development accumulate thousands of tests. The more tests you have, the more important speed and reliability become. With TDD, you run the tests as often as one or two times every minute.

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The Crazy Programmer

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Here, in this article, we’ll review the DocRaptor tool, an HTML to PDF API converter. The DocRaptor review will briefly discuss how it works with Python, some code examples, features, benefits, and perhaps pros and cons. DocRaptor enables you to create PDFs with complex CSS design tools, for example, flexbox.

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Net Objectives

APRIL 3, 2019

When first adopting TDD, developers can run into some roadblocks that seem to indicate that TDD is a difficult process. In truth, some of these problems actually indicate faults in the system architecture.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Cyber attacks and data breaches can wreak havoc on a business’ IT systems, resulting in massive costs to fix the damage and a long-lasting impact on customers that could hamper a company’s growth for years to come. Implement ICT security tools and processes: Any DORA-focused preparations need to take tools and processes into account.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Writing tests that help evolve a system is hard, and you get there by avoiding smart tests while preferring dumb ones. The Paradox of Smart Tests Smart is always better than dumb, isn’t it? This time we’ll look at the paradox that dumb programmer tests are superior to smart ones. Let’s dive in.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

They are examples of real, early-stage board slides from seed and Series A stage companies that did a great job informing their boards and driving constructive discussions.” And we have another fistful or two for you: Go truck yourself : Kodiak Robotics is adding an electric, autonomous semi truck to its fleet next year , by Rebecca.

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James Shore

MARCH 29, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development. It’s test-driven development, and it actually delivers these results. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. Why TDD Works.

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Confluent

APRIL 24, 2019

So you’ve convinced your friends and stakeholders about the benefits of event-driven systems. Each distinct service has a nice, pure data model with extensive unit tests, but now with new clients (and consequently new requirements) coming thick and fast, the number of these services is rapidly increasing. The Test Machine.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When you shop for a holiday gift, you probably read at least one review. Garner Health’s bet is when you look for a doctor, you’ll want to do the same thing — but you’ll find that existing reviews aren’t enough to go on. . The end result, per Reber, is a “totally objective” review system.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Firehawk Aerospace has a safer and more stable new fuel, new engines, and millions in new funding to take it through the next round of tests to its first launch. The company designed engines around this concept and tested them at smaller scales, but recently graduated to the kind of engine you might actually use if you were going to space.

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Xebia

AUGUST 9, 2023

With the industry moving towards end-to-end ML teams to enable them to implement MLOPs practices, it is paramount to look past the model and view the entire system around your machine learning model. The classic article on Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems explains how small the model is compared to the system it operates in.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Apply systems thinking into all facets of development. Base milestones on objective estimation and evaluation of working systems to ensure there is an economic benefit. Lean portfolio management: By applying Lean and systems thinking, SAFe organizations ensure their entire portfolio is aligned and funded to deliver strategic value.

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2023

There’s no better test of your capability to do so than right after an adverse event. For example, the risk of having an organization’s “license to operate” withdrawn by a regulator or having conditions applied (retrospectively or prospectively) can adversely affect market value and consumer confidence.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Is testing way behind development? When Scrum team members lack time or interest in the Retrospective, that tells us there is a problem somewhere else in the system. A general working assumption when we see good people doing something strange is that we should examine the system to understand what it is telling us.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 12, 2021

To have an effective Sprint Review story, let’s assume that they magically wound back the clock (shazam!) The team set “Have basic reader review system in place so book buyers can see a variety of opinions about a book” as their Sprint Goal. Reader can write a review of a book (plain text only).

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2024

For example, KPMG reports that 51% of technology executives have not seen an increase in performance or profitability from digital transformation investments. The best option is when the product team reviews requirements in open sprint review sessions, inviting key stakeholders and end-users to attend.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Early use cases include code generation and documentation, test case generation and test automation, as well as code optimization and refactoring, among others. Gen AI is playing a role in assisting with performing code reviews and early detection of potential issues.” One example is with document search and summarization.

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Perficient

MARCH 31, 2024

What is Cypress Cypress is a modern JavaScript-based end-to-end (e2e) testing framework designed to automate web testing by running tests directly in the browser. However, despite the convenience, simplicity and a quick start, when we talk about Cypress tests, we still mean the code. This is where Cypress comes into play.

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CircleCI

MAY 27, 2021

Testing is vital because it helps you discover bugs before you release software, enabling you to deliver a high-quality product to your customers. Sometimes, though, tests are flaky and unreliable. Tests may be unreliable because of newly-written code or external factors. How to discover flaky tests. Time of day.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Automated tests are important. Unfortunately, many automated tests also waste a huge amount of time. The easy, obvious way to write tests is to make broad tests that are automated versions of manual tests. It’s also easy to make poor-quality tests that are hard to read, or end up only testing themselves.

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Mentormate

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Imagine that you’re a tester preparing a huge amount of scripted test cases covering everything in a system. You open a bottle of champagne to celebrate, and then suddenly, a bug appears from some edge case scenario that wasn’t covered by any of the scripted tests. A Closer Look at Exploratory Testing.

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Perficient

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Introduction Software test automation is a cornerstone of modern software development, enabling rapid and reliable testing. However, one persistent challenge that automation engineers face is dealing with flaky tests—tests that intermittently pass and fail without any changes to the code or application.

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Henrik Warne

MAY 26, 2019

DevOps in this context means things like continuous delivery, automated tests, trunk-based development, and proactive monitoring of system health. The change fail rate is the percentage of times a change to the system (such as a deploy or a configuration change) fails. One example is the employee Net Promotor Score (eNPS).

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

APRIL 23, 2023

Potential candidates will read those bad reviews and decide not to apply. Don’t prolong the screening stage If you take days to review new candidate applications, you risk the chance of skilled candidates being recruited by your competitors. BONUS: 3 unique examples of how recruiters can continuously keep candidates engaged 1.

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InnovationM

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

What is API Testing ? API Testing is testing the business logic of the developed application. The purpose of the API Testing is to validate that the developed business logic of the application is working according to the given requirements. For example, when a new user account is created. Types of HTTP Methods ?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Self-driving trucks startup TuSimple signaled it is close to testing its system without a human safety operator on public roads before the end of the year. Kodiak Robotics, for example, has only begun driver-out testing on closed tracks. “This test phase will inform and validate our safety case.

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Netlify

MARCH 4, 2020

The code review is a critical part of life as a professional developer: in most engineering organizations, no code gets checked in without at least a second look from another engineer. To solve this, Netlify’s UX team developed shared terminology for code reviews that we call the Feedback Ladder! The Problem. The Solution.

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Netflix Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

These observations are from a particular type of A/B test that Netflix runs called a software canary or regression-driven experiment. An example data stream for an A/B test where each observation represents play-delay for the control (left) and treatment (right). Such changes should not be ignored by our testing procedure.

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Openxcell

JULY 26, 2021

What is Regression Testing? Regression Testing is a type of software testing done to check that a recent program or code change has not adversely impacted the existing functionality. . Definition of Regression Testing . For example, regression testing is performed when there is a code change in a software application.

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Openxcell

JULY 26, 2021

What is Regression Testing? Regression Testing is a type of software testing done to check that a recent program or code change has not adversely impacted the existing functionality. . Definition of Regression Testing . For example, regression testing is performed when there is a code change in a software application.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

Take for example French multinational Carrefour, who used it to make digital avatars and videos. Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. They now use what they learn about a program to help build unit tests.

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Honeycomb

JULY 6, 2022

It is only possible to come to an understanding of a system of interest by trying to change it. Jackson explains Kurt Lewin’s work, in Critical Systems Thinking. Here, Jackson contrasts action research with old-style hard science, which tries to study a system from the outside. Here’s an example of how that can work.

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