Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. In theory , all software is debuggable. There is a much longer list of things that make software less than 100% debuggable in practice.

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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 17, 2023

Experiences like these make many developers think about using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). BDD emphasizes collaboration between developers, testers, and stakeholders to define and deliver software that meets business requirements. For each team member, ask: Are they familiar with BDD or TDD?

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Net Objectives

JANUARY 23, 2019

In previous posts I discussed that the first leg of emergent design is TDD which provides code quality & sustainability. The essence of agility is … Continue reading "The Third Leg of Emergent Design: Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)".

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Net Objectives

JANUARY 10, 2019

With a name like TEST-driven development you’d expect TDD is mostly about testing. Especially when the end result is tests. In our book Design Patterns Explained we discussed how testability (how easily code can be tested) is an intrinsic property of software and is highly correlated with good design.

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Accenture

APRIL 12, 2018

It’s becoming more and more difficult to identify areas of life that don’t depend on software. Yet it may surprise you that much of the software we use every day is poorly written and designed, has little code coverage, and has created in users such low expectations that people – despite much bellyaching – simply put up with.

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James Shore

JUNE 2, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Productivity was measured at almost three times the level for comparable embedded software teams. Test-Driven Development.

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Honeycomb

JULY 26, 2022

You’ll be relieved to hear that you’re in the majority, and also that there are quick (and easy) steps you can do to prove that instrumenting your code is worthwhile. For most languages and frameworks, adding in basic auto-instrumentation is a few lines of code. Observability-Driven Development + Test-Driven Development.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. There’s no objective measure of software productivity [Fowler 2003], but from experience, I’d estimate a 10-20% performance dip at first.

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James Shore

APRIL 29, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Every day, our code is better than it was the day before. Every day, our code is better than it was the day before. Traditional approaches to design assume that, once coded, designs shouldn’t change. Look at the code you’re about to work on.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2018

For example code demonstrating these ideas, see my example on GitHub. When programmers use test-driven development (TDD), the code they test interacts with other parts of the system that aren't being tested. It avoids the downsides of mock-based testing, but it has tradeoffs of its own.

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James Shore

MARCH 23, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. When we’re ready to code, nothing gets in our way. The deploy script will run the full test suite, and we also have a canary server that checks to see if anything goes wrong. A few minutes later, it says INTEGRATION OK , then starts deploying the code.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

When something small changes in these classes, it ripples through the entire code base. After the Sprint Planning Meeting, Steve modifies the Story/Task Board to look like: Adding the Definition of Done at the top (permanently) and a Unit Test column (only until Unit Testing becomes a habit).

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 23, 2019

During the next retrospective, Steve chooses a timeline to help the Team review what has happened.[ We run experiments that we hypothesize will improve the situation (Unit Testing, Test-Driven Development, Behaviour-Driven Development) and look to see if the data from these experiments supports this outcome.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 24, 2019

During the next retrospective, Steve chooses a timeline to help the Team review what has happened. [ We run experiments that we hypothesize will improve the situation (Unit Testing, Test-Driven Development, Behaviour-Driven Development) and look to see if the data from these experiments supports this outcome.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2018

For example code demonstrating these ideas, see my example on GitHub. When programmers use test-driven development (TDD), the code they test interacts with other parts of the system that aren't being tested. It avoids the downsides of mock-based testing, but it has tradeoffs of its own.

Testing 40

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James Shore

APRIL 26, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. It’s Not Just Coding. Computers don’t care what your code looks like. If the code compiles and runs, the computer is happy.

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