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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Why do people apply TDD? Here’s a secret: it’s not for the tests. Learn about the actual goal and values hidden under the surface of Test-Driven Development. What Are the Real Reasons for Doing TDD? Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers.

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TDD saved the day

Xebia

To tackle each operation, I started with a small test, following the principles of Test-Driven Development (TDD). If the tests became too complex, I knew something was missing. This description takes the form of a test. The tests didn’t make assumptions about the inner workings of the code.

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Extended Role of QA in Test Driven Development (TDD)

Xoriant

TDD is an Agile Development technique in which developers write test cases before writing the corresponding code for the user story assigned to him. Once the code passes the Acceptance test, the code is then refactored /simplified to be used as production code. How TDD is different than others?

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What Observability-Driven Development Is Not

Honeycomb

There’s Behavior-Driven Development , Domain-Driven Design , and plenty of others. The biggest is Test-Driven Development (TDD) , thanks to Kent Beck and his Xtreme Programming crew. TDD is a great design practice. But which should drive our development?

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. But software is typically understandable because we have given it structure and constraints. IF (); THEN (); ELSE () is testable and reproducible.

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence. Image Credits: AppMap.

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Alternatives to Acceptance Testing

NeverFriday

I think of defects as coming from four sources: programmer errors, design errors, requirements errors, and systemic errors. James Shore, Alternatives to Acceptance Testing. During the software development process, the goal of eliminating defects while you’re writing code is less costly rather than fix bugs later on.