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Misconceptions with Test Driven Development

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

import Figure from '@/components/global/figure.astro'; import TestXs from 'src/content/blog/misconceptions-with-test-driven-development/images/test-xs.jpg'; In the past few weeks I've heard several misconceptions raised about Test Driven Development: Does TDD really work?

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say how many engineers we have, so let’s just say “lots,” but not “tons.”

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6 Talks We’re Excited to Hear This Year at the Kansas City Developer Conference

OverOps

Dig in deeper with this intermediate-level session with Jayashree S Kumar, a Software Engineer at IBM’s India Software Labs. Building Quality JavaScript With Test-Driven Development. Have you let testing fall to the wayside? Have you let testing fall to the wayside? Wednesday at 8:00 AM | 2202.

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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Jacque Garcia, CircleCI Software Engineer

CircleCI

In this series, we pulled aside folks from across our engineering department to talk about confidence. From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers. We hope you enjoy it.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

Back in April , I posted the new career ladder I was planning to introduce at OpenSesame, which I’ve joined as VP of Engineering. PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. The other open question is whether engineers feel this system is better.

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

A-CSMs attend educational offerings to gain techniques and skills that go beyond the basics and introductory mechanics of Scrum, expanding into interaction, facilitation, coaching, and team dynamics, according to Scrum Alliance. The certification is also well-suited for software engineers, business analysts, and project managers.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Broadly speaking, these skills can be grouped into customer skills, development skills, and coaching skills. This might be a product manager or senior developer. Development Skills. If customer skills are about figuring out what to do, development skills are about figuring out how to do it. Test Driven Development.