James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. They also love test-driven development, pairing, continuous integration, and evolutionary design. They tend to be passionate, senior developers. This is what test-driven development is all about, and its an amazing way to work.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

James Shore

JANUARY 11, 2019

Dependency Injection Demystified - 22 Mar, 2006. The Art of Agile Development (Book) - 2008. Continuous Integration on a Dollar a Day - 27 Feb, 2006. An easier, cheaper (and better) way to do continuous integration. Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language - 27 Apr, 2018.

Test-Driven Development 60

Test-Driven Development Agile Continuous Integration Testing 60

James Shore

JANUARY 11, 2019

Dependency Injection Demystified - 22 Mar, 2006. The Art of Agile Development (Book) - 2008. Continuous Integration on a Dollar a Day - 27 Feb, 2006. An easier, cheaper (and better) way to do continuous integration. Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language - 27 Apr, 2018.

Test-Driven Development 60

Test-Driven Development Agile Continuous Integration Testing 60

James Shore

APRIL 9, 2021

Test-Driven Development. Technically, you can refactor at any time, but unless your IDE has provably-safe refactorings, it’s best to do it when you have a good suite of tests that are all passing. Test-Driven Development. 1 XXX replace with direct reference when Continuous Deployment is written.

Software Review 78

Software Review Technical Review Systems Review Test-Driven Development 78

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

1 See, for example, [Van Schooenderwoert 2006], [Mah 2006], and [Anderson 2006]. Programmers continuously integrate their code, which enables the team to release their software whenever it makes the most business sense. There’s no point in Agile for the sake of Agile. What will it take to achieve that success?

Agile 59

Agile Software Review Technical Review Weak Development Team 59

James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Rooney 2006] experienced that problem, with regrettable results: We weren’t sure what our priorities were. Until then, development on an Agile team looks similar to development on any other team. Test Driven Development. Continuous Deployment. Continuous Integration. Programming.

Weak Development Team 86

Weak Development Team UI/UX Coaching Software Review 86

James Shore

JUNE 7, 2021

A programmer makes an off-by-one error, but their pairing partner suggests a test to catch it. A team member accidentally erases a file, but continuous integration rejects the commit. It’s a joint look back at your development system for the purpose of learning and improving. Close the retrospective.

Analysis 72

Analysis Weak Development Team Software Review Systems Review 72