Honeycomb

AUGUST 12, 2022

After all, observability is about understanding systems, which means more than just production. We can give developers the same superpowers that SREs have: observability-driven development. TDD goes platinum. TDD is considered the gold standard of shift-left testing for a reason.

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Altexsoft

AUGUST 16, 2022

In response to the variety of quality standards that government-contacted organizations had to comply with, in 1987, the International Organization for Standardization published now universally recognized quality requirements. Quality Assurance vs Quality Control vs Testing. Consider acceptance testing types.

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Honeycomb

JULY 26, 2022

Dear Miss o11y, My organization doesn’t want me spending time on instrumenting my product. Is the system working? First, let’s talk about what makes a system “work.” First, let’s talk about what makes a system “work.” If we don’t know that our system is running, then it’s not done. What can I do?

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many software engineers are encountering LLMs for the very first time, while many ML engineers are being exposed directly to production systems for the very first time. LLMs are their own beast Unit testing involves asserting predictable outputs for defined inputs, but this obviously cannot be done with LLMs. Sound at all familiar?

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 24, 2023

I’m a test-driven developer and spent a lot of time with Jaeger while unit testing. From the start, I wanted to make sure that I knew how our system worked so that I could know what was going on in production.” We spend time reviewing incidents: How much of a problem was this?

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many software engineers are encountering LLMs for the very first time, while many ML engineers are being exposed directly to production systems for the very first time. LLMs are their own beast Unit testing involves asserting predictable outputs for defined inputs, but this obviously cannot be done with LLMs. Sound at all familiar?

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I was with a privately held software engineering firm focused on helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities. Have we, as software testing professionals, advanced our craft? Some were not born yet, others mid-flight in our IT careers, and still others moving toward our mature technology years.

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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

There are many types of functional testing: Unit testing (which can also be used for non-functional testing). Integration testing. User acceptance testing. Closed-box testing. Unit testing. Unit tests are limited though. Closed-box testing. Load testing. Usability testing.

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Gorilla Logic

MAY 19, 2021

KPMG reports that 67 percent of tech leaders struggle to find the right tech talent, and 22 percent of organizations surveyed by Coding Sans ranked increasing development capacity as their top challenge. Build the continuous integration, delivery, and performance testing that a DevOps or DevSecOps approach requires .

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CircleCI

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As engineering teams increasingly adopt DevOps as their software development strategy, they are becoming faster and more efficient. Unfortunately, this speed and efficiency can expose cracks in the delivery system as well as other bottlenecks to productivity. You can automate the entire development process from commit to deploy.

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CodeSignal

MARCH 23, 2020

Today, many organizations are having to shift from in-person technical interviews to online interviews. Fast-growing organizations can’t stay still during this pandemic, they have to keep pushing forward. Every technical online interview software should have a robust support system. Optimization Features.

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CodeSignal

MARCH 23, 2020

Today, many organizations are having to shift from in-person technical interviews to online interviews. Fast-growing organizations can’t stay still during this pandemic, they have to keep pushing forward. Every technical online interview software should have a robust support system. Optimization Features.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 4, 2019

Reinforcement Learning: Building Recommender Systems , August 16. Ken Blanchard on Leading at a Higher Level: 4 Keys to Creating a High Performing Organization , June 13. Spotlight on Cloud: Mitigating Cloud Complexity to Ensure Your Organization Thrives with David Linthicum , August 1. Systems engineering and operations.

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

While there were definitely some new concepts introduced in the article—like pair programming and test-driven development—the overall philosophy hit home in a big way. However, getting developers to test their own code was always a struggle. So many of them were tied directly to his work in Extreme Programming.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 11, 2020

Convincing skeptics to try a new system (32:12). And in an Agile Dojo, typically a team comes together, either because there is a specific development skill that they want to practice, such as, for example, test-driven development, or perhaps they want to practice how they start and stop their programming sessions or how they pair program.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 5, 2019

Reinforcement Learning: Building Recommender Systems , August 16. Ken Blanchard on Leading at a Higher Level: 4 Keys to Creating a High Performing Organization , June 13. Spotlight on Cloud: Mitigating Cloud Complexity to Ensure Your Organization Thrives with David Linthicum , August 1. Systems engineering and operations.

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Capgemini

MARCH 27, 2020

Tomorrow’s leaders are already starting to transform towards new delivery models that will enable them to develop more exploratory and adaptive strategies. The information system (IS) of the future supports this approach and delivers an abundance of innovative services in record time. He wasn’t kidding.

Agile 52

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James Shore

MARCH 12, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development. What other tests do you need to write? How does this code fit into the rest of the system?

Programming 56

Programming Software Review Technical Review Test-Driven Development 56

James Shore

JUNE 4, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Exploratory Testing. Test-Driven Development. There’s much more to exploratory testing than I have room for in this book.

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Net Objectives

JULY 1, 2018

Product management creates clarity on what is most valuable for the organization to build while providing teams guidance in its implementation. People cost (their lost time) due to this training/coaching takes. The core skills are to: know what to focus on so as to avoid overworking the development team.

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James Shore

MARCH 23, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development. The first culprit is usually test speed. The “Fast and Reliable Tests” section describes how.

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James Shore

MARCH 10, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Pairing will help ideas will organically spread around the team. Ask somebody who knows that part of the system well to pair with you.

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The Programmer's Paradox

JUNE 29, 2009

The debate has ended, and the conclusion is: TDD works. Test Driven Development (TDD) for those that are unfamiliar with it, is more or less a "game" to be played while coding, with a set of three "laws" orienting a programmer's efforts. "The jury is in. The controversy is over. Sorry." -- Robert C.

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Code Simplicity

MAY 10, 2014

Today there was an interesting discussion between Kent Beck , Martin Fowler , and David Heinemeier Hansson on the nature and use of Test-Driven Development (TDD), where one writes tests first and then writes code. It’s possible to minimize this point and say it’s only relevant to debugging or testing.

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James Shore

MAY 26, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development. This does raise the question: if you can’t see your changes, how do you test them?

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James Shore

APRIL 26, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development. Test-driven development encourages you to think about and improve your design at nearly every step.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. One of the recurring themes in this book is that, in order to be Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. The following sections describe the investments your teams need from your organization. Investing in Agility. Martin Fowler.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This article will discuss the nature of behavior-driven development and how it can be used successfully by an organization to assist its technical team in delivering software that fulfills its goals. What is Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)? It’s a system for automatically testing those behaviors.

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James Shore

MAY 26, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development. This does raise the question: if you can’t see your changes, how do you test them?

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CircleCI

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As stated on its homepage, the framework is designed for fans of test-driven development (TDD). As a feature of this design, it comes bundled with a specialized testing framework. In this tutorial, you will learn how to automate the testing of an Adonis.js installed on your system (>= 8.0).

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Your feedback is appreciated! This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. But at last, you ship. Experimentation.

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James Shore

JUNE 7, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. For an excellent and practical guide to incident response, see Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems [Beyer et al.

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James Shore

MAY 24, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development. For complex systems, this often involves a secret management tool. File systems run out of space.

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James Shore

JUNE 19, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Although this book is focused on individual Agile teams, many organizations have more than one development team, and they’re often dependent on each other to finish their work. A system of interdependent Agile teams is called large-scale Agile.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 6, 2018

As we discussed in “ Specialists Are Overrated ,” developing cross-skills and “T-Shaped” people in a team has many benefits – for the team/organization itself, the customer, and the individual. A Skills Matrix is a self-reporting system where team members provide their own estimate of their skill in a specific area.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 24, 2019

Whenever you are building and deploying a complex system, there are always going to be bugs, defects, and unforeseen problems with usability — commonly referred to as Production Support issues. Most organizations that run these kinds of systems have helpdesks for users to raise these issues with.

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LeanEssays

JULY 16, 2015

It struck me that the reason an organization opts for late adoption is to learn from those who go first – from the companies that bushwhacked through the agile swamp a decade ago, or the organizations that followed a few years later. Yet without a solid foundation in the technology that produces great systems, agile is pretty hollow.

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