James Shore

MARCH 29, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. We produce high-quality code in small, verifiable steps. At best, mistakes lead to code that won’t compile. No wonder, then, that software is buggy. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring.

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MagmaLabs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Reading Time: 11 minutes Nowadays it is relatively easy to become a software developer, but being a truly professional one is not that simple. Being a professional developer is crucial in the software industry. How do I know if I am a professional software developer? Apply Clean Code. Context first. Open-Closed Principle.

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InnovationM

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the realm of modern software development, testing is indispensable. Mocking with Jest Un derstanding Mock Functions : Definition and purpose of mock functions in Jest, which simulate real functions or objects for testing purposes. It ensures the reliability, stability, and quality of our codebases.

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James Shore

MARCH 17, 2022

With TDD, you run the tests as often as one or two times every minute. If they don’t, you won’t be able to get feedback within 1-5 seconds, and that’s crucial for the TDD loop to work effectively. A narrow test is focused on a small amount of code. Other Unit Test Definitions. Here’s how. Rely on Narrow Unit Tests.

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Apiumhub

JULY 1, 2021

Definitely, Never Stop Growing. Our code has to be flexible enough to evolve in a fast way and without risks. For that, I try to base my work on clean code practices and SOLID principles. And try to put our code near the business language, basing it on the Domain Driven Design. It’s part of the job, you’ve to assume it.

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James Shore

JANUARY 31, 2019

If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. To improve code and test practices. If you're trying to improve your team's coding and testing practices, perform root-cause analysis 1 of escaped defects, then improve your design and process to prevent that sort of defect from happening again.

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Apiumhub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

There were numerous topics covered in this online event, and in this article, I would like to go through a few of the sessions in the junior track, such as Composable Microfrontends, React Hooks, TDD with User Interfaces, and Web Performance. He did a simple request form demo with TDD and the React Testing Library to prove his hypothesis.

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Honeycomb

JULY 26, 2022

You’ll be relieved to hear that you’re in the majority, and also that there are quick (and easy) steps you can do to prove that instrumenting your code is worthwhile. For most languages and frameworks, adding in basic auto-instrumentation is a few lines of code. Here’s a simple test using ODD and TDD together.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. In theory , all software is debuggable. There is a much longer list of things that make software less than 100% debuggable in practice.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 14, 2022

Apiumhub has been operating in the software development industry since 2014. Over the last years it has positioned itself as one of the best quality software delivery agencies. Our core is Software Architecture, this is what we are famous for! Apiumhub Workflow. We adapt it to every scenario and to every client.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 25, 2023

At a glance, it’s clear that the prompts Xu Hao uses to generate working code are very long and complex. Writing these prompts requires significant expertise, both in the use of ChatGPT and in software development. First, note the overall strategy Xu Hao uses to write this code. His first prompt is very long.

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Apiumhub

MAY 31, 2022

The main goal of a software company is to deliver a quality product. Reducing to the basics, within a current agile software team we can find three main roles: Business – Product owner: Captures the requirements requested by the client (stakeholders). Tasks are created with the definition + agreed scenarios.

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Xebia

JANUARY 30, 2024

While rigorous software development practices like comprehensive automated testing, and even Test Driven Development (TDD), combined with consideration for edge cases, can guard against many issues, there’s always the possibility of unforeseen errors. This cycle would continue, bypassing any business-related code. Exit early.

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Xebia

MARCH 10, 2022

In software development this can be translated into ‘prevent bugs from ending up in the codebase’. An example of the second category would be test – driven development where a test case is created before any code is developed and the tests need to pass before code can be submitted.

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I was with a privately held software engineering firm focused on helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities. Here are some highlights of our journey as a software testing profession since the creation of the Manifesto (compliments of Google and testingreferences.com): 2001–2010 Software Testing Highlights.

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James Shore

APRIL 9, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. We revise and improve the design of existing code. That’s what everybody says: entropy is inevitable, and chaos eventually turns your beautifully imagined, well-designed code into a big mess of spaghetti. Refactoring. Programmers. Nor is it any arbitrary change.

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Habitable Code

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This article is part 3 in a series in which I’m doing a well-known code kata in the “TDD as if you meant it” style. So currently I have this code: Let’s review this from the point of view of the 4 Rules: Firstly, these tests are passing. So now it’s back around the 4 Rules.

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Codegiant

APRIL 14, 2020

Agile vs Waterfall: Key Differences And Definition?—?Which Agile is also about human interactions, customer collaboration, adapting to change, and producing working software. You observe how the market reacts to the software you create and then make iterations to improve it. Delivering software that actually works.

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CircleCI

APRIL 27, 2021

The next step for getting more confident in your deployments is diligently adding both unit tests and integration tests any time you fix a bug or add a new feature. Fully adopting the Test Driven Development (TDD) practice helps, as this ensures that any new or changed code will always have tests.

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InnovationM

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

A unique feature for a mobile domain: it reuses test automation code between IOS/Android up to 70-80%. Code reusability For mobile-based apps, Carina reuses automation code between iOS and Android apps up to 70-80 percent. As the detailed specifications are written in the starting and we write tests before the code.

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Gorilla Logic

JULY 12, 2023

Development Using Specflow in.NET Behavior-driven development (BDD) is an Agile software methodology that can bridge the gap between business-focused and technical people by ensuring that software is built around the behavior a user expects to experience when using it. Right-click into the feature file content and select Define Steps.

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Habitable Code

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This article is part 6 in a series in which I’m doing a well-known code kata in the “TDD as if you meant it” style. Last time, I decoupled the code from the prices of A and B. Thanks for reading Habitable Code! So the code is in fact a highly faithful model of the domain as defined by the tests.

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Accenture

APRIL 10, 2019

Not automating software delivery, testing, operations. To realize the benefits of microservices make sure to automate software delivery, testing, and operations. Although possible, achieving a high level of testing automation without addressing quality at the source – when the code is developed – is extremely wasteful.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. In theory , all software is debuggable. There is a much longer list of things that make software less than 100% debuggable in practice.

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James Shore

APRIL 26, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. It’s Not Just Coding. Computers don’t care what your code looks like. If the code compiles and runs, the computer is happy. Design is for humans: specifically, to allow programmers to easily understand and change the code. Collective Code Ownership.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 10, 2020

In this interview, we spoke to CircleCI Software Engineer, Jacque Garcia. I’m a software engineer on the X Team. One is confidence in my code. What are you able to do when you’re confident in the code you’re writing? What builds your confidence in your code? We hope you enjoy it.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

When business professionals understand the capabilities of the technical team, and the engineers understand what the business truly requires from the software, it results in the creation of software with real business value. In BDD, acceptance tests are the starting point for software design. But how do you achieve all this?

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James Shore

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s about a novel way of testing code. Two people (20%) specifically called out the structure of the code as a positive, and two others liked the clear explanations. Six people (60%) did so: I recommend this workshop because it will give you very effective tools to improve how you build software. Skip to the improvements.

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Apiumhub

JULY 4, 2018

This year we moved to a new office in Plaza Urquinaona, where we have an awesome room for organizing Apiumhub software architecture meetups. So, this autumn we started a series of Apiumhub meetups about software architecture and software development. 1st software architecture meetup: MVP & FRP.

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Gorilla Logic

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Program Increment (PI) Planning, following the definition provided by Scaled Agile, “ is a cadence-based, face-to-face event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train (ART), aligning all the teams on the ART to a shared mission and vision. ” . But what is a more practical definition? The team can focus on writing code.

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Accenture

JUNE 21, 2018

Teams will not manage risk or create contingency for unexpected demand or other interruptions due to delivery pressure. This problem is exacerbated by waterfall artifacts such as “approvals” and “reviews” appearing in the work flow. ” Teams will push work to the next iteration and go back to step one.

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Storm Consulting

MAY 3, 2018

The State of Software talk by Robert C. Agile Manifesto author and software expert Robert Martin asks if it is time for us to take responsibility for our work? He chunked his talk on the state of software into four timeboxes of fifteen minutes each. London, UK 1 st May 2018 at Skills Matter , for Scrum Event.

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Habitable Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

This article is part 4 in a series in which I’m doing a well-known code kata in the “TDD as if you meant it” style. Last time I spent quite a bit of effort getting my code and tests readable (in the sense that they tell my Customer’s story). so you don’t miss anything.

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Habitable Code

JULY 29, 2022

To recap the 4 rules, code that is “simple” (ie. In an ideal world, all of our code would satisfy all four rules simultaneously. The order of the rules comes into play when we have code that doesn’t already satisfy them — code that, by this definition at least, isn’t habitable.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

While producing this blog post, I collaborated with our in-house software development team. And the very first question I shot their way was: “What are some of your biggest software development nightmares?” Deadlines are any software development team’s biggest nightmare. Trust me?—?new new bugs can occur at any point in time.

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Silk and Spinach

JANUARY 22, 2015

I can see three four kinds of connascence between the test and the production code: Connascence of Name, because the test knows the names of the methods to call on the checkout object. I can get some help from SOLID here, because the Dependency Inversion Principle also tells me that this code has a problem.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

While producing this blog post, I collaborated with our in-house software development team. And the very first question I shot their way was: “What are some of your biggest software development nightmares?” Deadlines are any software development team’s biggest nightmare.

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