InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 15, 2021

One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). It’s not something that just happens by itself, and many of the “usual” ways of introducing change fail for TDD.

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Coding Dojo

JANUARY 9, 2023

While you may not be able to completely … What Is Test-Driven Development? TDD Guide For Beginners Read More ». The post What Is Test-Driven Development? TDD Guide For Beginners appeared first on Coding Dojo.

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DevOps.com

MAY 19, 2023

Modern development environments, in which rapid continuous delivery is facilitated by automated continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines, require thorough and automated testing in development prior to integration.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Unit testing is like exercise: Companies know it’s good for you and you should do it, but given their druthers, they’d rather avoid the effort and just get to the benefit. After all, making unit testing a standard practice in a company’s software development process is probably the […]. I wish I could say it’s otherwise.

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

This session shows how to use TDD to drive the design of a multithreaded code. If you've confronted test driving for thread-safety this session is for you.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

In many organizations, automated testing lags behind and becomes a bottleneck for successful continuous delivery. Either tests do not provide enough confidence or companies take a very traditional approach, resulting in releases either introducing substantial risks or becoming costly. These principles tell us our tests should be: Fast.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. You’ve passed the tests for product-market fit, financials and competitive differentiation well enough that they now want to look under the hood. A quick primer on TDD. Image Credits: Sema. For example, U.S.

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Habitable Code

AUGUST 19, 2022

Back in 2014 I wrote a blog post listing three mistakes often made by folks who are new to test-driven development (TDD). Writing tests for invented requirements. We’re doing TDD, but we have no code to test; we have nothing to hang our first test on, so we need to invent something, fast!

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Habitable Code

AUGUST 12, 2022

Back in 2014 I wrote a blog post listing three mistakes often made by folks who are new to test-driven development (TDD). Each time I visit a team that is relatively new to TDD I find the same basic mistakes cropping up every time. Writing tests for invented requirements. This is part 1.

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Habitable Code

AUGUST 26, 2022

Back in 2014 I wrote a blog post listing three mistakes often made by folks who are new to test-driven development (TDD). Writing tests for invented requirements. It is also not TDD. Or secondly, there is probably a lot of coupling between the code and the existing tests. Let’s look at an example.

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CircleCI

APRIL 25, 2019

In my previous post we talked about mocks and stubs: what they are, and how to use them in various testing scenarios to give yourself more flexibility, speed up your tests, and get more determinism out of your test suite.

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Net Objectives

APRIL 23, 2019

TDD often uses unit tests to drive behavior into the system. However, sometimes acceptance tests are used to do this. When these are automated, this can give us clues as to how to make our work in TDD more reusable.

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James Shore

APRIL 13, 2022

Test-Driven Development is one of the few truly new Agile ideas. In this session, we’re joined by two folks with decades of TDD experience: Mike “GeePaw” Hill and J. In this session, we’re joined by two folks with decades of TDD experience: Mike “GeePaw” Hill and J. Test-Driven Development. ?? Fast, Reliable Tests. ??

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Net Objectives

APRIL 5, 2019

TDD, when conducted as a specifying activity, is an aspect of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). Behavior is what we specify and is what we “drive” into the system using tests. Therefore, when structuring the tests in TDD we can be guided by the language of BDD: Given, When, Then.

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Net Objectives

MAY 20, 2019

Ideally in TDD, no more than one test is ever failing at any given point in time. This test represents the work that is about to be done but hasn’t yet. Also, this test should not spend a long time in the red. We want the suite to get back to “all green” as quickly … Continue reading "TDD: Keeping Tests Green".

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Net Objectives

MARCH 20, 2019

Because TDD is “test” driven development, people tend to think of TDD as “writing tests first.” In fact, TDD is not a testing activity per se. Unit tests are a very useful by-product of this process. Because of this … Continue reading "Commonly Missing Tests in TDD".

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TechBeacon

JUNE 8, 2021

Most developers believe in the value of unit tests, even if they don't always like writing them. Most of them are okay with writing unit tests while doing new development work or practicing test-driven development (TDD), but it's easy to be disciplined with greenfield development.

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Toptal

JULY 29, 2020

Employing a test-driven development (TDD) approach in React projects tends to be straightforward, especially with the aid of Jest and Enzyme. In this article, Toptal JavaScript Developer Dave Hyungmok Lee demonstrates his React TDD process, from epics and user stories to development and production.

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Net Objectives

APRIL 22, 2019

Part of the TDD process consists of writing failing tests before the code that will eventually make them pass. Test-first alone is not TDD per se, but it is a part of it. When tests are written before production code, this has several beneficial effects.

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James Shore

MARCH 17, 2022

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. With TDD, you run the tests as often as one or two times every minute.

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Net Objectives

MAY 9, 2019

But if all behavior in TDD needs to be tested, and if instance behavior implemented in abstract classes cannot be tested … Continue reading "TDD: Testing Adapters for Abstract Classes".

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Net Objectives

MARCH 7, 2019

Some organizations who have adopted TDD as their development strategy have assumed that they no longer need SAT/QA testers, since the developers are now writing tests. First, developers do not write the same kinds of tests that testers do. This is a mistake.

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Net Objectives

MARCH 12, 2019

Often the developers understand and agree that these qualities are important, but they are not … Continue reading "“Good” Tests in TDD". Is it cohesive, decoupled, non-redundant, encapsulated, open-closed, and so forth?

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James Shore

MARCH 29, 2021

Test-Driven Development. It’s test-driven development, and it actually delivers these results. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. Done well, TDD eliminates an entire class of programming errors. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. Why TDD Works.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Writing tests that help evolve a system is hard, and you get there by avoiding smart tests while preferring dumb ones. The Paradox of Smart Tests Smart is always better than dumb, isn’t it? This time we’ll look at the paradox that dumb programmer tests are superior to smart ones. Let’s dive in.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 17, 2019

At John Hancock, we use Test-Driven Design (TDD) for all our new initiatives. TDD has three simple steps: Before you write functional code, write a test that proves if the implementation works or fails. Write the code and watch the test pass.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Previously, the author offered a detailed overview of the technical due diligence (TDD) process investors conduct before injecting cash into early stage startups. Which testing methods do you use and what is their breadth? Do you perform unit tests, automated tests, manual QA testing, and user acceptance testing?

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Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Last month we talked about TDD example in software development ( part 1 ) and TDD first cycle ( part 2 ). In this new TDD and primitive obsession article, we will focus on removing duplication and reinforcing the constructors of our entities, something key to have a robust system. TDD: primitive obsession.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is a custom software development process that is driven by the behavior of an application and is often called an extension of the Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach. Why Behavior Driven Development Testing Came Into the Picture.

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Honeycomb

JUNE 23, 2020

The most successful software development movement of my lifetime is probably test-driven development or TDD. With TDD, requirements are turned into very specific test cases, then the code is improved so the tests pass. Using TDD to Drive Better Code. TDD has some powerful things going for it.

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Net Objectives

MARCH 13, 2019

TDD requires an expenditure of developer effort. TDD returns value in many ways, but here I will focus on one way in particular: Tests prove their worth when they fail. When a test fails, this is the point when we say “wow, we’re … Continue reading "TDD “Good” Tests Part 1.

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In this post, we see how to integrate PBT into your Kotlin tests. I’ve been a big fan of Property Based Testing for a number of years, based on my experiences with ScalaCheck. It’s always been an annoyance that Kotlin did not support this testing style, at least to the same extent. Introduction.

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StubHub

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Because of this, I started some years ago to study how to sleep well, which came down to learning about testing my code. My first step in the testing world was doing tests after the code. However, it highlighted another problem: my tests were influenced by my code. To avoid this, I started to learn about TDD.

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Net Objectives

JANUARY 22, 2019

I am heartened by the surge in TDD training. To me TDD is the 2nd most important thing for devs to learn-ATDD being the 1st TDD’s not just the automation of unit testing. TDD’s formulation of tests, prior to code, drives design. It’s also intended to improve design & sustainability.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Without knowing the solution, is TDD worth it? I like to use Test-Driven Development (TDD) when coding. However, in some circumstances, TDD is more of a hinderance than a help. Writing tests only makes sense after the solution is viable. Writing tests only makes sense after the solution is viable.

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Net Objectives

APRIL 4, 2019

Developers often remark that the tests may contain the same algorithms that the production code does. This feels like redundancy and makes them wonder if TDD is promoting bad practices. The code would contain something like this: return (F - 32) * 5/9; The test might contain … Continue reading "TDD Replicating Algorithms".

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Perficient

MARCH 31, 2024

What is Cypress Cypress is a modern JavaScript-based end-to-end (e2e) testing framework designed to automate web testing by running tests directly in the browser. However, despite the convenience, simplicity and a quick start, when we talk about Cypress tests, we still mean the code. This is where Cypress comes into play.

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