The Programmer's Paradox
MARCH 16, 2023
It all has to be very reactive; you keep fiddling with the code until it gets traction. Under those conditions, it doesn’t make sense to cross all the t’s and dot the i’s as the life expectancy of the code is weeks or months. Some people invented a fun little game called “test driven development” (TDD).
Habitable Code
AUGUST 19, 2022
Back in 2014 I wrote a blog post listing three mistakes often made by folks who are new to test-driven development (TDD). Writing a dozen or more lines of code to get to GREEN. We’re doing TDD, but we have no code to test; we have nothing to hang our first test on, so we need to invent something, fast!
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DevOps.com
OCTOBER 3, 2019
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.
Apiumhub
DECEMBER 4, 2023
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James Shore
MARCH 29, 2021
To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. We produce high-quality code in small, verifiable steps. At best, mistakes lead to code that won’t compile. No wonder, then, that software is buggy. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring.
Habitable Code
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Back in early 2015, on my old blog, I ran a series of articles in which I implemented a solution to a popular code kata. I followed the strict test-driven development (TDD) cycle, and when it came to the REFACTOR step I tried to drive all of my choices using connascence. Because those are the tools I’m comfortable with.)
Habitable Code
OCTOBER 7, 2022
This article is part 7 in a series in which I’m doing a well-known code kata in the “TDD as if you meant it” style. Thanks for reading Habitable Code! This is how we left things last time: Coming back to this code after a couple of days away, I have the scary feeling that I’ve let a few problems build up.
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