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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Why do people apply TDD? What Are the Real Reasons for Doing TDD? Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers. After many years of doing TDD daily, I think part of the reason is that some people do not fully grasp the reasons behind TDD. TDD and the Values of XP.

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FaceCode: The DEFINITIVE Way Of Conducting Coding Interviews

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Non-standardized, subjective evaluations due to lack of preparation time: From our conversations with multiple hiring managers and recruiters, we realized that ‘prep time’ is a misnomer. We believe all coding interviews should be OBJECTIVE and SKILL-BASED. FaceCode is like noise cancellation for your coding interviews.

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Finding a New Software Developer Job

Henrik Warne

For the first time ever, I was laid off, and had to find a new software developer job. The quality of the roles was about the same as I normally get (albeit at a much higher rate) – some I really liked, some were OK, and some were definitely not for me. Reflections Times are definitely harder now compared to the previous decade.

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TDD: Three easy mistakes

Habitable Code

Back in 2014 I wrote a blog post listing three mistakes often made by folks who are new to test-driven development (TDD). Each time I visit a team that is relatively new to TDD I find the same basic mistakes cropping up every time. Writing a dozen or more lines of code to get to GREEN. This is part 1.

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Use Git data to optimize your developers’ annual reviews

TechCrunch

We believe that the only unbiased, accurate and insightful way to understand how your developers are working, progressing and — last but definitely not least — how they’re feeling, is with data. So here’s a run down of why you need data to set up a fair annual review process; if not this year, then you can kick-start it for 2021.

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

TechCrunch

This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews. Once it rolls out, the feature will provide a short paragraph of text on the product detail page that highlights the product capabilities and customer sentiment mentioned across the reviews. Could AI summarize those?

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Broadcom Software: Taming IT Complexity through Effective Strategies and Partnerships

CIO

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world.