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A prep checklist for startups about to undergo technical due diligence

TechCrunch

8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. Previously, the author offered a detailed overview of the technical due diligence (TDD) process investors conduct before injecting cash into early stage startups. Code quality. Which software languages do you use?

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TDD or Test-Last? One Thing at a Time

Xebia

Disentangling Programming Concerns At first glance, all the activities I mentioned seem inseparable, like a big blob of spaghetti code. What do we want to achieve with the code we’re creating? Here, we have to be creative and knowledgeable about the tools we use. In most cases, we need the ability to evolve the code.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Technical due diligence, web3’s promise, how to hire well

TechCrunch

So far, web3 has not paid off on the Promise of the Premise : open source software that runs live on the blockchain. app simply because the ecosystem is mature and enjoys a large and thriving developer community,” says Devin Abbott, who specializes in design and development tools, React and web3 applications. cloud servers.”

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Xebians collaborating on internal tool development

Xebia

Our development approach Here is an overview of how we introduce new capabilities into the tool: 1. Without a clear design, we use pair programming and test-driven development (TDD) until we are satisfied, focusing on the desired API first. This typically concludes with the removal of the original code.

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Agile, Stand-ups, TDD and Code Reviews

The Programmer's Paradox

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).

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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

I recently finished Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide by Maurício Aniche , and I really liked it. I have been coding for a long time and I think I have been writing pretty good tests for the features I have implemented. The book apparently grew out of lecture notes from a course on software testing.

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TDD and Code Coverage Tools

Net Objectives

In TDD and Code Coverage, we established that code coverage tools do not provide useful project metrics, in and of themselves. In TDD, we don’t use code coverage tools for this purpose because we don’t need to. Continue reading "TDD and Code Coverage Tools". .