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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

Test-Driven Development. It’s test-driven development, and it actually delivers these results. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. Done well, TDD eliminates an entire class of programming errors. Why TDD Works.

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AoAD2 Practice: Refactoring

James Shore

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. Each step should only take a few moments, and your tests should pass after each one. Bache 2018]. See README.md

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AoAD2 Practice: No Bugs

James Shore

QSM found 11% defect reduction and 58% schedule reduction on a Scrum team; 75% defect reduction and 53% schedule reduction on an XP team; and 75% defect reduction and 30% schedule reduction in a multi-team analysis of thousands of developers. Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development.

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DevOps top programming languages support engineering metrics goals

CircleCI

This is not entirely surprising, as HCL also appeared on the list of fastest-growing languages in GitHub’s 2018 and 2019 “State of the Octoverse” reports. Usage of HCL on CircleCI has grown steadily over the past several years, climbing three spots since 2019 to become the ninth-most popular language used on the platform.

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Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language

James Shore

27 Apr 2018. When programmers use test-driven development (TDD), the code they test interacts with other parts of the system that aren't being tested. You can use this code in your own projects: // Copyright 2018 Titanium I.T. James Shore/Blog. HTTPS Spy Server. All rights reserved.

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Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language

James Shore

27 Apr 2018. When programmers use test-driven development (TDD), the code they test interacts with other parts of the system that aren't being tested. You can use this code in your own projects: // Copyright 2018 Titanium I.T. James Shore/Blog. HTTPS Spy Server. All rights reserved.

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AoAD2 Practice: Incremental Design

James Shore

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.