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Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design

Henrik Warne

The focus is on how to structure systems to make them easy to understand and work with. The book starts with a good chapter on complexity. The author defines complexity as anything related to the structure of a software system that makes it hard to understand and modify. What I Liked The Most. Complexity. Deep Modules.

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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Why do people apply TDD? Here’s a secret: it’s not for the tests. Learn about the actual goal and values hidden under the surface of Test-Driven Development. What Are the Real Reasons for Doing TDD? Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers. Feedback on what?

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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

I recently finished Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide by Maurício Aniche , and I really liked it. I have been coding for a long time and I think I have been writing pretty good tests for the features I have implemented. Even so, I found this book quite valuable. Specification-Based Testing.

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Rethinking digital transformation for the agentic AI era

CIO

For example, by analyzing customer feedback, including unstructured data such as reviews and social media comments, AI helps organizations operationalize that feedback to improve training, policies, and hiring, Mazur says. CIOs focusing only on productivity gains from gen AI may miss larger opportunities to transform their organizations.

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Book review: Accelerate

Henrik Warne

The book Accelerate details the findings of four years of research on how DevOps affects various outcomes, such as software delivery tempo and stability, as well as the organizations’ profitability and market share. The findings of the research are presented in the first part of the book (a bit more than half of it).

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StudySmarter books $15M for a global ‘personalized learning’ push

TechCrunch

. “For instance, when an economics student uploads a PDF on the topic of marginal cost, StudySmarter will recommend several user-generated courses that cover marginal cost and/or several flashcards on marginal cost as well as e-books on StudySmarter that cover this topic. This is based on spaced repetition. Image Credits: StudySmarter.

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QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing

TechCrunch

. “As software developers ourselves — working in health tech and fintech, where even minor bugs could have an outsized impact on people’s lives — we know firsthand how critical robust end-to-end testing is for all software businesses,” Perl said. ” Image Credits: QA Wolf.