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. Use Broad Tests Only as a Safety Net.

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Net Objectives

MAY 31, 2019

For the last few month, I have been posting several times a week on what I hope are interesting topics relating to aspects of Test-Driven Development. I have just posted the sixtieth entry in this series and this seemed like enough content to gather into a sort … Continue reading "Announcing the TDD Companion".

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Test-first yields analysis, it helps us determine what is clear, what is unclear or missing, and ferrets out misunderstandings. Unit tests are unforgiving, they don’t let you get away with anything. But Test-Driven Development also creates better design.

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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). For each team member, ask: Are they familiar with BDD or TDD? Net), or Behave (Python). At first glance, BDD appears to be straightforward. What’s BDD?

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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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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Neural nets are also inherently stochastic, because GPU calculations around floating point operations are inherently nondeterministic. You can’t really write unit tests for this (nor practice TDD). This means shipping sooner, observing the results, and wrapping your observations back into the development process.

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JULY 9, 2019

I recently wrote a long series of posts here on various topics about Test-Driven Development. I ended up writing so many of them, they resulted in a little book I published through Amazon Kindle Direct called The TDD Companion. I’ve started to hand out copies of this book to student in my TDD courses.

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Honeycomb

JULY 26, 2022

NET, Java, and Python all have this feature), or even bringing data in from your infrastructure outputs like Kubernetes or load balancers. Observability-Driven Development + Test-Driven Development. Coupling TDD with an approach of observability first is the superpower you didn’t know you had.

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James Shore

JUNE 2, 2021

That takes time, sure, but it also eliminates time needed for testing and fixing after the fact. It turns out to be a net gain, resulting in higher quality results for less cost and time. Test-Driven Development. Test-driven development is your defect-elimination workhorse. Energized Work.

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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. To test those interactions, and to prevent the other code from interfering with their tests, programmers often use mock objects or other test doubles.

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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. To test those interactions, and to prevent the other code from interfering with their tests, programmers often use mock objects or other test doubles.

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James Shore

APRIL 26, 2021

Test-Driven Development. Test-driven development encourages you to think about and improve your design at nearly every step. Test-Driven Development. If you’ve practiced test-driven development, you’ve practiced incremental design, at least at the level of a single module or class.

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