Honeycomb

AUGUST 12, 2022

After all, observability is about understanding systems, which means more than just production. We can give developers the same superpowers that SREs have: observability-driven development. TDD goes platinum. TDD is considered the gold standard of shift-left testing for a reason.

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James Shore

APRIL 9, 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. Test-Driven Development. The definitive guide is Martin Fowler’s eponymous book, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code.

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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. James Shore, Alternatives to Acceptance Testing.

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Honeycomb

JULY 26, 2022

Is the system working? First, let’s talk about what makes a system “work.” If we don’t know that our system is running, then it’s not done. If we can’t find out how healthy our system is, we can’t give our stakeholders confidence that the system will continue functioning. What is instrumentation?

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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). What ILiked The Most.

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Testing Development Software Review Systems Review 117

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. How about a real-time embedded system? Test-Driven Development. Test-driven development is your defect-elimination workhorse.

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Henrik Warne

JUNE 19, 2022

Even so, I found this book quite valuable. Particularly the chapters on how to systematically come up with test cases based on the specification, inputs, outputs and the structure of the implementation. He has also worked for several years as a developer. Structural Testing and Code Coverage. Test doubles and mocks.

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James Shore

MAY 7, 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. The integration branch must always build and pass its tests. Without exception, it must always build and pass its tests. Zero Friction.

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CodeSignal

MARCH 23, 2020

It’s like making you write an entire book on paper with a pen. Some teams might want to use predefined questions that are carefully calibrated for difficulty to ensure consistency and to incorporate TDD (test-driven development). Every technical online interview software should have a robust support system.

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CodeSignal

MARCH 23, 2020

It’s like making you write an entire book on paper with a pen. Some teams might want to use predefined questions that are carefully calibrated for difficulty to ensure consistency and to incorporate TDD (test-driven development). Every technical online interview software should have a robust support system.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 11, 2020

Convincing skeptics to try a new system (32:12). And in an Agile Dojo, typically a team comes together, either because there is a specific development skill that they want to practice, such as, for example, test-driven development, or perhaps they want to practice how they start and stop their programming sessions or how they pair program.

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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. Test-Driven Development. What other tests do you need to write? How does this code fit into the rest of the system?

Programming 56

Programming Software Review Technical Review Test-Driven Development 56

James Shore

JUNE 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. Exploratory Testing. Test-Driven Development. There’s much more to exploratory testing than I have room for in this book.

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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. All thanks to the TypeScript type system. What do you think?

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James Shore

MARCH 23, 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. Test-Driven Development. The first culprit is usually test speed. The “Fast and Reliable Tests” section describes how.

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James Shore

MARCH 10, 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. If you’re not using pairing (or mobbing), you might need to add a daily design review. Test-Driven Development. Refactoring.

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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. Test-Driven Development. This does raise the question: if you can’t see your changes, how do you test them? Sign up here.

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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. Test-Driven Development. Test-driven development encourages you to think about and improve your design at nearly every step.

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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. The book Creating Great Teams: How Self-Selection Lets People Excel [Mamoli and Mole 2015] describes how it works.

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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. Test-Driven Development. This does raise the question: if you can’t see your changes, how do you test them? Sign up here.

Software Review 52

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James Shore

APRIL 29, 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. Test-Driven Development. I wanted my new login endpoint to have sociable tests. See “Write Sociable Tests” on p.XX.)

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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. Most of these skills are out of the scope of this book. Until then, development on an Agile team looks similar to development on any other team.

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James Shore

JUNE 7, 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. The details of how to respond during an incident are out of the scope of this book. Failure is a consequence of your entire development system.

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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. A system of interdependent Agile teams is called large-scale Agile.

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James Shore

MAY 24, 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. Test-Driven Development. For complex systems, this often involves a secret management tool. File systems run out of space.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 6, 2018

Demonstrates that in any system where there is a bottleneck, the rest of the system should be subordinated to the bottleneck until the bottleneck is cleared. Goldratt’s work is, in part, the basis for Kanban and also shows why, in a constrained situation, moving a Developer or Writer from their primary work to the constraint (e.g.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 24, 2019

Whenever you are building and deploying a complex system, there are always going to be bugs, defects, and unforeseen problems with usability — commonly referred to as Production Support issues. It’s live, and books are selling and shipping. In Systems Thinking this is called a negatively reinforcing feedback loop.

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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.” It means tests as code, infrastructure as code, deployment as code.

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Marcusoft

JANUARY 27, 2020

All of them have got rave reviews from our clients, top-line software companies in Stockholm. I was pondering this as I picked up the book Antifragile by Nicholas Nassim Taleb for a reread. After four years in university, master of computer science, I had to spend 6 months at my first job being trained as a developer.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 1, 2023

Coding practices is a broad topic that encompasses a lot—software maintenance, test-driven development, maintaining legacy software, and pair programming are all subcategories. As our systems are growing ever larger, object-oriented programming’s importance seems secure.

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Apiumhub

JULY 23, 2019

As you may already know, Apiumhub team is software architecture-oriented and reads books for software architects on a weekly basis. But before attending this powerful event, we highly recommend you to read these fascinating books for software architects, written by the GSAS speakers. It teaches risk-driven architecting.

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LeanEssays

JULY 15, 2011

If all goes according to plan, about two-thirds of the way through the release cycle, code will be frozen for system integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT). If this sounds like your situation, I recommend that you read Gojko Adzic’s book “ Specification by Example.” Pressure increases.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2020

For this week’s Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream , I have a special show for you: the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The Art of Agile Development came out in 2007. Book Excerpt. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development.

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LeanEssays

JUNE 5, 2015

Lean is about Flow Efficiency The book This is Lean (Modig and Ahlström, 2013) describes “lean” as a relentless focus on efficiency – but not the kind of efficiency that cuts staff and money, nor the kind of efficiency that strives to keep every resource busy all of the time. Consider our dental experience. My flow efficiency was 1.5÷336

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