James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. Our software would be easy to modify and maintain. We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. They also love test-driven development, pairing, continuous integration, and evolutionary design. So I told the truth. Lovability.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

NeverFriday

JUNE 7, 2013

James Shore, author of the book “The Art of Agile”, wrote an article that covers the alternatives to acceptance testing. The way you write an acceptance test is to take a user story and then write code that tests the end result of a software process. Preventing Programming Errors with TDD.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

It is okay to start out simple and not overthink, but these two things are key: Have tests – having some tests is better than no tests, as it provides a feedback mechanism for improvement. This results in a steadily-growing set of tests becoming part of the development cycle. Lower-level testing.

Software Review 130

Software Review Testing Systems Review Technical Review 130

James Shore

MARCH 10, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Collective Code Ownership. Developers. We are all responsible for all our code. But how does that apply to code? Collective code ownership means the team shares responsibility for their code. It’s your code. Mob Programming.

Software Review 118

Software Review Weak Development Team Test-Driven Development Systems Review 118

James Shore

MARCH 17, 2022

The full text of this section is available below, courtesy of the Art of Agile Development book club ! Fast, Reliable Tests. Our tests don’t get in our way. Test-Driven Development. Teams who embrace test-driven development accumulate thousands of tests. Details here.

Software Review 114

Software Review Testing Systems Review Technical Review 114

Henrik Warne

AUGUST 20, 2017

I recently found out about the book Developer Testing – Building Quality Into Software by Alexander Tarlinder , and I immediately wanted to read it. Even though I am a developer at heart, I have always been interested in software testing (I even worked as a tester for two years).

Testing 119

Testing Development Software Review Systems Review 119

Xebia

MARCH 10, 2022

Many books have been written on the concept of quality and the Wikipedia page on quality provides the following summary: . In software development this can be translated into ‘prevent bugs from ending up in the codebase’. This provides very high coverage but requires more effort during development. .

Software Review 130

Software Review Quality Assurance Systems Review Technical Review 130

James Shore

APRIL 9, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. We revise and improve the design of existing code. That’s what everybody says: entropy is inevitable, and chaos eventually turns your beautifully imagined, well-designed code into a big mess of spaghetti. Test-Driven Development. Refactoring.

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Software Review Technical Review Systems Review Test-Driven Development 78

Net Objectives

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.

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review TDD Sustainability 40

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.

Software Review 83

Software Review Technical Review Systems Review Weak Development Team 83

James Shore

JUNE 2, 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. Productivity was measured at almost three times the level for comparable embedded software teams. Test-Driven Development.

Software Review 80

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review Test-Driven Development 80

James Shore

APRIL 12, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Development. It’s startling how rarely software development processes actually talk about the nuts and bolts of development. This chapter includes practices to speed up your development and make it more reliable: “Zero Friction” on p.XX

Development 64

Development Test-Driven Development Software Review Programming 64

Apiumhub

JULY 24, 2023

In our last article , we introduced our newest initiative, Talk with Software Development Experts, a space where we interview tech experts to get to know more about them, their careers, their experience, and their interests. Are you Interested in knowing who were the software development experts we interviewed?

Software Development 52

Software Development Software Review Software Development 52

James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. One of the recurring themes in this book is that, in order to be Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. They need people with the ability to put themselves in users’ and customers’ shoes to determine exactly what the software will do.

Agile 132

Agile Software Review Coaching Weak Development Team 132

James Shore

JUNE 19, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Although this book is focused on individual Agile teams, many organizations have more than one development team, and they’re often dependent on each other to finish their work. Each coach will need resources, such as this book, to help them learn.

Agile 117

Agile Coaching Software Review Technical Review 117

James Shore

MAY 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. For many teams, releasing their software is the same as deploying their software. Test-Driven Development. Programmers.

Software Review 64

Software Review Technical Review Systems Review Test-Driven Development 64

James Shore

FEBRUARY 18, 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. I haven’t integrated the new code yet.”. I’m going to deploy the new build on their test bed so they can play with it.”. “I says Valentina.

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Software Review Test-Driven Development Technical Review Testing 72

Honeycomb

JULY 26, 2022

You’ll be relieved to hear that you’re in the majority, and also that there are quick (and easy) steps you can do to prove that instrumenting your code is worthwhile. For most languages and frameworks, adding in basic auto-instrumentation is a few lines of code. Observability-Driven Development + Test-Driven Development.

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Software Review Systems Review TDD Load Balancer 52

Habitable Code

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This article is part of a series in which I’m doing a well-known code kata in the “TDD as if you meant it” style. On the one hand, these articles give us a chance to dive deep into writing code via TDD and refactoring. Look for opportunities to increase the symmetry and self-similarity in your code.

Software Review 52

Software Review TDD Test-Driven Development Testing 52

Honeycomb

AUGUST 12, 2022

This is how the developer story used to go: You do your coding work once, then you ship it to production—only to find out the code (or its dependencies) has security or other vulnerabilities. TDD goes platinum. TDD is considered the gold standard of shift-left testing for a reason. But nothing’s perfect.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Technical Review TDD 52

CodeSignal

MARCH 23, 2020

CodeSignal’s Interview is designed exclusively to help teams conduct live coding interviews. One of the most important features in technical online interview software is having a high-powered integrated development environment (IDE). It’s like making you write an entire book on paper with a pen. Real Time Code Execution.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Software Systems Review 52

CodeSignal

MARCH 23, 2020

CodeSignal’s Interview is designed exclusively to help teams conduct live coding interviews. One of the most important features in technical online interview software is having a high-powered integrated development environment (IDE). It’s like making you write an entire book on paper with a pen. Real Time Code Execution.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Software Systems Review 52

James Shore

MAY 7, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. We keep our latest code ready to release. We keep our latest code ready to release. Most software development efforts have a hidden delay between when the team says “we’re done” and when the software is actually ready to release. Refactoring.

Continuous Integration 78

Continuous Integration Software Review Weak Development Team Test-Driven Development 78

James Shore

APRIL 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. It’s a small experiment, in code, to research the answer to a problem. Spike solutions use code because nothing is more concrete.

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Software Review Test-Driven Development Testing 58

James Shore

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Some software is straightforward: just another UI on top of yet another database. Some software is straightforward: just another UI on top of yet another database. But often, the software that’s most valuable is the software that involves specialized expertise.

Examples 64

Examples Software Review Test-Driven Development Testing 64

James Shore

MAY 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. For many teams, releasing their software is the same as deploying their software. Test-Driven Development. Programmers.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Systems Review Test-Driven Development 52

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. Most of these skills are out of the scope of this book. But at last, you ship.

Weak Development Team 86

Weak Development Team UI/UX Coaching Software Review 86

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 1, 2023

In 2021, we saw that GPT-3 could write stories and even help people write software ; in 2022, ChatGPT showed that you can have conversations with an AI. Now developers are using AI to write software. A lot has happened in the past year. Business (13%), security (8%), and web and mobile (6%) come next.

Trends 144

Trends Technical Review Technology Software Review 144

Habitable Code

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This article is part 6 in a series in which I’m doing a well-known code kata in the “TDD as if you meant it” style. Last time, I decoupled the code from the prices of A and B. Thanks for reading Habitable Code! But it is also the simplest way to make the current set of tests pass.

Software Review 52

Software Review TDD Testing Test-Driven Development 52

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 11, 2020

How can we train teams to consistently produce quality code without negatively impacting productivity? Announcer: Welcome to The Programming Leadership podcast, where we help great coders become skilled leaders, and build happy, high performing software teams. So, let’s take one of them, I think you said unit testing, is that right?

Agile 59

Agile Software Review SCRUM Weak Development Team 59

James Shore

APRIL 29, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Every day, our code is better than it was the day before. Every day, our code is better than it was the day before. Traditional approaches to design assume that, once coded, designs shouldn’t change. Look at the code you’re about to work on.

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Software Review Test-Driven Development Testing Authentication 64

Wolk Software Engineering

JANUARY 29, 2019

In this post, I would like to discuss the importance of static types in functional programming languages and why TypeScript is a better option than JavaScript when it comes to functional programming due to the lack of a static type system in JavaScript. Life without types in a functional programming code base.

Programming 77

Programming Software Review Lambda Systems Review 77

LeanEssays

JULY 16, 2015

In the First Round Review article I'm Sorry, But Agile Won't Fix Your Products , Adam Pisoni, co-founder and former CTO of Yammer, contends that “While SCRUM did manage to rein in impulsive managers, it ended up being used more to exert tighter control over engineers’ work.” Yes, this means writing a lot more code.

Agile 69

Agile Software Review Technical Review Microservices 69

James Shore

JUNE 7, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Despite your best efforts, your software will sometimes fail to work as it should. Despite your best efforts, your software will sometimes fail to work as it should. The details of how to respond during an incident are out of the scope of this book.

Analysis 72

Analysis Weak Development Team Software Review Systems Review 72

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 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. Its benefits—even the ability to release software more frequently—come from working differently, not from working faster. Brooks 1995].

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 6, 2018

They review your list and add any skills for you that they feel you missed. I’ve also seen it misused by management to pressure team members or in the Performance Review process. Taught other developer something last week, he taught to his partner, and I just heard it spread to a 4th team member “ [ 2 ].

SCRUM 65

SCRUM Software Review How To Quality Assurance 65

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.

Programming 56

Programming Software Review Technical Review Test-Driven Development 56