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TDD or Test-Last? One Thing at a Time

Xebia

Here, we have to be creative and knowledgeable about the tools we use. That is precisely what TDD helps with. TDD to Separate Concerns At the core of TDD is its mantra : red, green, refactor. We’re fleshing out the problem piecemeal, specifying behavior we want of the system. The post TDD or Test-Last?

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

TechCrunch

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. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. Tomorrow, we’ll run his detailed TDD checklist.

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Agile, Stand-ups, TDD and Code Reviews

The Programmer's Paradox

Clearly, the best way to test any software is with fully automated ‘system’ testing that is thorough enough that it can be used for full regression testing. In its fullest form, it is at least as much code as the thing it is going to test, and you have to build a custom version of it, every time, for every system. But it got worse.

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TDD and Test Invariance

Net Objectives

TDD often uses unit tests to drive behavior into the system. When these are automated, this can give us clues as to how to make our work in TDD more reusable. Tools like Fit, Specflow, and Cucumber are all designed to parse some non-technical artifact (such … Continue reading "TDD and Test Invariance".

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

Test automation is not a project or a one-off—it is part of the development lifecycle and should be seen as its own system that needs to evolve over time as the requirements and system under test change and mature. Delivery pipelines and source code management systems help—for example, you can gate pull requests on a failing test.

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What Observability-Driven Development Is Not

Honeycomb

The biggest is Test-Driven Development (TDD) , thanks to Kent Beck and his Xtreme Programming crew. TDD says you write tests before writing any code, because this pushes you to design the code in ways that are testable, with APIs that are usable. TDD is a great design practice. But which should drive our development?

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were a tool that alerted you to programming mistakes moments after you made them—a tool so powerful, it virtually eliminated the need for debugging? There is such a tool, or rather, a technique. TDD isn’t perfect, of course.