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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. 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? TDD isn’t perfect, of course.

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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 ‘systemtesting 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.

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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.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

It reduces the cost of testing and supports keeping long-term, high-development velocities. 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.

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5 Tips for Successfully Implementing Behavior-Driven Development in Your Team

Gorilla Logic

It enhances your existing Agile approach , synthesizing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD). You start by defining the desired behavior of the software in terms of concrete examples or scenarios that describe the behavior of the system in a clear, concise way.

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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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Four short links: 11 May 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

is a text-to-speech tool that you can use to generate 44.1 System Programming Book — CS241 “Intro to Systems Programming” textbook that was created in a wiki by University of Illinois students over 5 years. Subjectively, the teams experienced a 15–35% increase in initial development time after adopting TDD.