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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development. What programming languages really need is a ‘DWIM’ instruction,” the joke goes. “Do Programming is demanding. It’s test-driven development, and it actually delivers these results. Why TDD Works.

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Agile, Stand-ups, TDD and Code Reviews

The Programmer's Paradox

Clearly, the best way to test any software is with fully automated ‘systemtesting that is thorough enough that it can be used for full regression testing. In its fullest form, it is at least as much code as the thing it is going to test, and you have to build a custom version of it, every time, for every system.

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AoAD2 Practice: Pair Programming

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Pair Programming. Developers, Whole Team. Nobody does—especially not people who pair program. Pair programming is one of the most controversial Agile ideas. That’s because pair programming doubles your brainpower. Test-Driven Development.

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Developer Testing

Henrik Warne

These frameworks encourage and help developers write automatic tests. Despite this trend of increasing developer testing, my feeling is that many developers still don’t test their programs well enough. That is why I was excited about this new book explicitly addressing developer testing.

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Here’s Why You Should Write Unit Tests

Modus Create

The time to fix these issues could’ve been used to build new features or optimize the existing system. Bear in mind that fixing bugs without running tests could also introduce new bugs into the system. Well-written unit tests act as documentation for your code. Unit tests make code reuse easier. Conclusion.

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New live online training courses

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Reinforcement Learning: Building Recommender Systems , August 16. Programming with Data: Advanced Python and Pandas , July 9. Programming. Java Testing with Mockito and the Hamcrest Matchers , June 19. Pythonic Object-Oriented Programming , June 26. Advanced Test-Driven Development (TDD) , June 27.

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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

Particularly the chapters on how to systematically come up with test cases based on the specification, inputs, outputs and the structure of the implementation. The author breaks down how to come up with test cases into a seven step process. The goal here is not to reach 100% test coverage. If so, no extra test is needed.