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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. 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. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. Why TDD Works.

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Quality Management is Risk Management

Xebia

In software development this can be translated into ‘prevent bugs from ending up in the codebase’. An example of the second category would be testdriven development where a test case is created before any code is developed and the tests need to pass before code can be submitted.

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Software Outsourcing: Why CEOs Love It

Gorilla Logic

Should you build software in-house or outsource it? It turns out that access to talented developers may be one of the most challenging pieces of the puzzle. . Ready to have a conversation about outsourcing your development to a top-ranked Agile development team? Let’s talk. As much as 51 percent of U.S.

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AoAD2 Practice: Fast, Reliable Tests

James Shore

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. Rely on Narrow Unit Tests. Details here.

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Improve User Story Acceptance Criteria with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

Gorilla Logic

In Agile development, a user story provides a simplified description of a software feature from an end user perspective. You can make your user stories stronger with techniques from behavior-driven development (BDD). Developers: Pass each of the test scenarios created for each story, and pass all the test scenarios. .

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Quality Control: Using Acceptance Testing to Guarantee Product Quality

Altexsoft

A bit earlier, in 1998, a much more trivial software mistake was uncovered. This mistake is something that should have been uncovered in quality control. Different from quality assurance, quality control is something that’s done to ensure the defective product doesn’t make its way to the market.

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Behavior Driven Development: The methodology that connects the three amigos

Apiumhub

The main goal of a software company is to deliver a quality product. We cannot perceive quality without a product in the same way that you cannot deliver a product without quality. Under this premise, we understand that quality is not manufactured, but is part of the development process.