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Article: How to Spread Technical Practices Like TDD in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). It’s not something that just happens by itself, and many of the “usual” ways of introducing change fail for TDD.

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

OverOps

CI/CD – More Than an Acronym, It’s a culture shift. As new tools are introduced to accelerate integration and delivery of new code, it’s important to ensure that your team is able to embrace the cultural shift necessary to support these new workflows. Thursday at 8:45 AM | 2206. CI/CD is taking the world by storm.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

If we were to take it one step further, where test automation is not only a tool to validate what we have made, but rather a way to write self-testing code , we find practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). As Dave Farley and Arjan Molenaar wrote: “TDD is not about writing unit tests”.

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Authors’ Cut—Not-So-Distant Early Warning: Making the Move to Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

TDD goes platinum. We’ve been living in a “shift-left” or “shift testing left” world for a while with test-driven development (TDD). TDD is considered the gold standard of shift-left testing for a reason. For the last two decades, TDD has caught and prevented many potential problems long before they reached production.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO

The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). The focus on a people-oriented culture sets it apart from other project management certification programs. BVOP emphasizes business value in all project management activities and practices.

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A Practical Approach for Shifting Left

Tenable

It requires a holistic approach to security, one that embraces cultural change and fosters collaboration among development, operation and security teams. A collaborative culture is key for organizations transitioning into DevSecOps. TDD addresses the intent or the "why" behind the code being written.

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Interesting facts about software development: statistics 2018

Apiumhub

From what we can see it is clear that there are 4 important areas tech companies focus when they’re hiring talent: willingness to learn, cultural fit, work experience and technical skill evaluation test. It turns out that challenging work and great team culture are the most popular ways to keep developers motivated.