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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Test-Driven Development. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. Why TDD Works.

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

Gorilla Logic

Have you ever been part of a team where tickets are hard to understand or don’t supply enough detail for the team to properly work? Experiences like these make many developers think about using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). Know your team members You work with your team every day and know them well.

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

Some of these things are related to cost/benefit tradeoffs, but most are about weak telemetry, instrumentation, and tooling. LLMs are their own beast Unit testing involves asserting predictable outputs for defined inputs, but this obviously cannot be done with LLMs. You can’t really write unit tests for this (nor practice TDD).

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Lessons learned from the React Global Online Summit 22 – Junior Track

Apiumhub

There were numerous topics covered in this online event, and in this article, I would like to go through a few of the sessions in the junior track, such as Composable Microfrontends, React Hooks, TDD with User Interfaces, and Web Performance. Test-Driven Development for Building User Interfaces – Tyler Hawkins.

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Agile, Stand-ups, TDD and Code Reviews

The Programmer's Paradox

These two things tend to make agile an excellent fit for startups and an impossibly bad fit for large projects in large organizations. A big problem in development, particularly when a lot of people are introverts, is communication. Mostly that is a bad idea. We see the same kinda thing with unit testing.

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Value vs valueable - another aha-moment

Marcusoft

According to Dave Farley it’s a common mistake he sees for teams to adopt user stories effectively. The reasons we want to make the stories small are plentiful; it’s easier to manage, implement, fix, deploy, and test… just about anything we do as a software development team. We, the developers, got some value from it.

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How to be a Professional Software Developer

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 11 minutes Nowadays it is relatively easy to become a software developer, but being a truly professional one is not that simple. Learn here how to be the developer that every company and every client wants to have. Being a professional developer is crucial in the software industry. Context first. For example.