James Shore

MARCH 29, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development. We produce high-quality code in small, verifiable steps. At best, mistakes lead to code that won’t compile. No wonder, then, that software is buggy. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. Why TDD Works.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 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. Modern software development takes a lot of skills. Your feedback is appreciated! But at last, you ship. At least it‘s Ops’ problem now.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 4, 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. Even the best teams inadvertently accumulate technical debt (code that slows you down). If you see code that’s no longer in use, delete it.

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Weak Development Team Software Review Technical Review Research 72

James Shore

MARCH 12, 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. Developers, Whole Team. Do you want to waste half your time sitting in sullen silence watching somebody else code? Their job is to code.

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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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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2020

Every week, we look at software engineering topics, and this week, I have a special show for you. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development. In the 1990s, software development was believed to be in crisis. They actually called it that: “The Software Crisis.” Introduction.

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