Net Objectives

MARCH 25, 2019

Often a given behavior will change due to a certain condition: sometimes the system will behave one way, sometimes another. We call this kind of behavioral change a “boundary” and it should be specified as such in TDD.

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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. It is the creation of an executable specification prior to the creation of each system element. Because of this … Continue reading "Commonly Missing Tests in TDD".

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Net Objectives

MAY 7, 2019

TDD depends on a strong connection between the automation of the test suite and the system itself. The suite should record the specification that is implemented in the system, and the connection allows this to be confirmed at any point. So, if errors creep into the test … Continue reading "Sustainable TDD: Part 3".

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Net Objectives

APRIL 17, 2019

In TDD, tests take actions such as Setup, Trigger, and Verify. Each of these pieces must successfully execute in order for the specification to be verified as accurate to the current behavior of the system. For example, If … Continue reading "TDD and Guard Assertions".

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James Shore

MARCH 29, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. 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. TDD is difficult to add to legacy codebases. Why TDD Works.

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Net Objectives

MARCH 26, 2019

Recently I wrote about the necessity in TDD of specifying both sides of a behavioral boundary, and its epsilon. This is important because we want a complete, detailed record of the critical business rules and other values in the system. It has to do with the … Continue reading "Specifying Boundaries in TDD: Part 2".

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Net Objectives

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I mentioned earlier that TDD offers qualitative measurements about production code, namely that a large average fixture size can be used to measure relative coupling in a system. The Single Responsibility Principle states that every class in … Continue reading "TDD and the Single Responsibility Principle".

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Net Objectives

MARCH 1, 2019

This means that a “good” design will allow for a new behavior to be added to a system without having to change the existing code, or at least to minimize … Continue reading "TDD and the OCP".

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James Shore

MARCH 17, 2022

With TDD, you run the tests as often as one or two times every minute. If they don’t, you won’t be able to get feedback within 1-5 seconds, and that’s crucial for the TDD loop to work effectively. Because external systems can change or fail at any time, the real answer is “monitoring.” (See Simulate Nonlocal Dependencies.

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Net Objectives

MARCH 27, 2019

The term “workflow” in this sense is meant to indicate the way two system elements interact when performing a task. Often these interactions themselves are not exposed outside the system, and so only their resulting behavior should be tested. This is as true in TDD as it is in traditional testing.

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Net Objectives

APRIL 11, 2019

Tests often establish example values used to compare the behavior of the system with the actual behavior indicated in the requirements.

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Net Objectives

MAY 21, 2019

It is important that the system behaviors we create as developers are both accurate and precise. The level of precision required … Continue reading "TDD and Accuracy vs. Precision". These are not the same. One can be: Accurate, but not precise: “Pi is a little over three.” Precise, but not accurate: “Pi is 5.393858303895.”

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Net Objectives

MARCH 5, 2019

One aspect of strong design is that separation is created between the various concerns of the system. This is one area where … Continue reading "TDD and the Separation of Concerns". This adds clarity, promotes re-use, improves cohesion, and in general adds value to the work.

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Net Objectives

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Project Managers and Product Owners are sometimes dubious about the development team doing TDD. They are concerned that the team will slow down because they’ve been burdened with additional work, and that developers might “game” the system with bogus tests to satisfy the process.

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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 17, 2023

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. Net), or Behave (Python).

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many software engineers are encountering LLMs for the very first time, while many ML engineers are being exposed directly to production systems for the very first time. Neural nets are also inherently stochastic, because GPU calculations around floating point operations are inherently nondeterministic. Latency is often unpredictable.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

import Figure from '@/components/global/figure.astro'; import TestXs from 'src/content/blog/misconceptions-with-test-driven-development/images/test-xs.jpg'; In the past few weeks I've heard several misconceptions raised about Test Driven Development: Does TDD really work? TDD isn't useful for helping to design the architecture of programs.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

import Figure from '@/components/global/figure.astro'; import BDDTDDUnitTest1 from 'src/content/blog/test-driven-development-is-not-a-quality-assurance-technique/images/BDD-TDD-Unit-Test-1.jpg'; jpg'; import BDDTDDUnitTest2 from 'src/content/blog/test-driven-development-is-not-a-quality-assurance-technique/images/BDD-TDD-Unit-Test-2.jpg';

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Honeycomb

JULY 26, 2022

Is the system working? First, let’s talk about what makes a system “work.” If we don’t know that our system is running, then it’s not done. If we can’t find out how healthy our system is, we can’t give our stakeholders confidence that the system will continue functioning. What is instrumentation?

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Net Objectives

MARCH 18, 2019

First, the interfaces TDD drives into the system are always client-focused. When a test precedes development, it essentially becomes the first “client” for the behavior being developed. This fact is helpful in several ways. They are not implementation-focused because at the moment they are created there is no implementation yet.

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James Shore

APRIL 26, 2023

Net Promoter Score: 60. Net Developers I recommend this workshop because it gives you a new perspective on how to deal with side effects in your unit tests. Testing Without Mocks will allow me to fully utilize TDD in my work and solve many of the pains my clients and I experience. It has certainly done it for me. Cristóbal G.,

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James Shore

JUNE 2, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. How about a real-time embedded system? It turns out to be a net gain, resulting in higher quality results for less cost and time. Confirm that the software does what it needs to do with frequent customer reviews and stakeholder demos.

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Mobilunity

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The business landscape of the twenty-first century is undergoing a fast, ongoing transformation due to the stunning rate of technological breakthroughs. Systemizing tons of technical documentation. In this article, you’ll find out the benefits of hiring freelance business analysts and how to find the best specialist for your project.

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We are proud to have had a lineup of speakers from different nationalities, including: Mark Richards is an experienced, hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems. He’s currently a software engineer at Google.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2018

When programmers use test-driven development (TDD), the code they test interacts with other parts of the system that aren't being tested. However, this approach requires additional integration tests to ensure the system works as a whole, and it can make structural refactorings difficult. No broad tests required.

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Apiumhub

MAY 26, 2022

Alexander von Zitzewitz is a serial entrepreneur in the software business and one of the founders of hello2morrow, an ISV specializing in static analysis tools that can enforce architecture and quality rules during development and maintenance of software systems. She has been developing high-quality software systems with her teams since 1998.

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LaunchDarkly

MAY 28, 2020

Sometimes people get that confused because when people think about end to end flow, sometimes they think about not just all the systems, the back end, the front end, the servers, everything up and running, but they sometimes think about, oh, I want to do a user story from start to end. So some people call that end to end as well.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2018

When programmers use test-driven development (TDD), the code they test interacts with other parts of the system that aren't being tested. However, this approach requires additional integration tests to ensure the system works as a whole, and it can make structural refactorings difficult. No broad tests required.

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James Shore

APRIL 26, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Next, review the design and make improvements. Again, review the design, simplify, and clarify. As “A TDD Example” on p.XX Refactorings occur every few minutes, during the “Refactoring” step of the TDD cycle. Your feedback is appreciated!

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Infrastructure is code that involves external systems or state.) JavaScript and Node.js) TDD Lunch & Learn Screencast. Although broad integration tests can be added as a safety net, their failure indicates a gap in the main test suite. Narrow tests check a specific function or behavior, not the system as a whole.

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Agile Engine

JUNE 19, 2024

While this holds true for complete system rewrites, most modernization projects are much more incremental in nature, and their success often depends on how well companies can manage technical debt. Eventually, these optimizations allowed us to clear away more than 60% of logs in a cloud system processing 140 million events.

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