Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a technique for building software that guides software development by writing tests. It was developed by Kent Beck in the late 1990's as part of Extreme Programming. Write the functional code until the test passes. Write the functional code until the test passes.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That is precisely what TDD helps with. TDD to Separate Concerns At the core of TDD is its mantra : red, green, refactor. " Red is where we express our understanding of the problem in a failing test, one piece at a time. We’re just trying to get to the finish line – making the test pass.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 15, 2021

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. By Emily Bache.

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Xebia

JUNE 6, 2023

Armed with a few assumptions about how things should work, I embarked on developing an application with a graphical UI and a backend. To tackle each operation, I started with a small test, following the principles of Test-Driven Development (TDD). If the tests became too complex, I knew something was missing.

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Toptal

JULY 29, 2020

Employing a test-driven development (TDD) approach in React projects tends to be straightforward, especially with the aid of Jest and Enzyme. In this article, Toptal JavaScript Developer Dave Hyungmok Lee demonstrates his React TDD process, from epics and user stories to development and production.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. You’ve passed the tests for product-market fit, financials and competitive differentiation well enough that they now want to look under the hood. A quick primer on TDD. Question 1: What have you been working on?

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

From a management standpoint, Test-Driven Development (TDD) can be a difficult sell. It involves a relatively large upfront investment, has no obvious business benefits, and (most important of all) the customer is paying for functionality, not tests.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Unit testing is like exercise: Companies know it’s good for you and you should do it, but given their druthers, they’d rather avoid the effort and just get to the benefit. After all, making unit testing a standard practice in a company’s software development process is probably the […]. I wish I could say it’s otherwise.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 11, 2024

To make sure that your state management functions as intended, it is essential to test your Redux code. We’ll look at methods and resources for testing Redux apps in this extensive article. Why Test Redux? Testing is an integral part of the development process, and Redux is no exception.

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DevOps.com

MAY 19, 2023

Modern development environments, in which rapid continuous delivery is facilitated by automated continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines, require thorough and automated testing in development prior to integration.

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Toptal

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Any piece of code that has no tests is said to be legacy code according to Michael Feathers. Therefore, one of the best ways to avoid creating legacy code is using test-driven development (TDD). component with basic functionality using TDD. component with basic functionality using TDD.

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James Shore

APRIL 13, 2022

Test-Driven Development is one of the few truly new Agile ideas. In this session, we’re joined by two folks with decades of TDD experience: Mike “GeePaw” Hill and J. In this session, we’re joined by two folks with decades of TDD experience: Mike “GeePaw” Hill and J. Test-Driven Development. ?? Rainsberger.

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TechBeacon

JUNE 8, 2021

Most developers believe in the value of unit tests, even if they don't always like writing them. Most of them are okay with writing unit tests while doing new development work or practicing test-driven development (TDD), but it's easy to be disciplined with greenfield development.

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Honeycomb

JUNE 23, 2020

The most successful software development movement of my lifetime is probably test-driven development or TDD. With TDD, requirements are turned into very specific test cases, then the code is improved so the tests pass. That step is observability driven development.

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CircleCI

APRIL 25, 2019

In my previous post we talked about mocks and stubs: what they are, and how to use them in various testing scenarios to give yourself more flexibility, speed up your tests, and get more determinism out of your test suite.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

In many organizations, automated testing lags behind and becomes a bottleneck for successful continuous delivery. Either tests do not provide enough confidence or companies take a very traditional approach, resulting in releases either introducing substantial risks or becoming costly. These principles tell us our tests should be: Fast.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 30, 2021

Behavior Driven Development (BDD). Behavior Driven Development( BDD) is a software development process that prioritizes collaboration among engineers and developers. Why Behavior Driven Development Testing Came Into the Picture. Why Behavior Driven Development Testing Came Into the Picture.

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OverOps

JULY 15, 2019

Good news if you’re a developer! The 11 th annual Kansas City Developer Conference is just around the corner , on July 18 th and 19 th at the Kansas City Convention Center in downtown Kansas City (with a pre-conference workshop day on July 17 th ). Building Quality JavaScript With Test-Driven Development.

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2024

One such initiative involves developing a toolset for assessing a customer’s situation. However, the purpose of this blog is not just to describe the toolset, but to share our development approach and some valuable lessons I (re)learned along the way. At Xebia, we implement numerous internal initiatives.

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James Shore

MARCH 29, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Test-Driven Development. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. Why TDD Works.

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NeverFriday

JUNE 7, 2013

James Shore, author of the book “The Art of Agile”, wrote an article that covers the alternatives to acceptance testing. The way you write an acceptance test is to take a user story and then write code that tests the end result of a software process. When it comes to testing, my goal is to eliminate defects.

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 29, 2020

Breaking Unit Testing Down. Introduction and History of Unit Testing [Part 1] by Leah Grantz — We all know we should be incorporating unit testing into our development processes, but do you know the history of this concept? We take a look into the history of test automation to get a look at where this all got started.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. To improve code and test practices. If waiting for defects to escape is too risky for you, have experienced QA testers conduct exploratory testing and conduct root-cause analysis on the results. To improve test discipline.

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James Shore

MARCH 17, 2022

This is an excerpt from The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The full text of this section is available below, courtesy of the Art of Agile Development book club ! Fast, Reliable Tests. Our tests don’t get in our way. Test-Driven Development. Fast, reliable tests are a game changer.

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Apiumhub

JULY 1, 2021

We are continuing with our interview series ( previously we had interviewed Diego Ojeda – Android Lead at Apiumhub and Serhii Zabolennyi – QA Automation engineer at Apiumhub ) and today we have a Backend interview with Javier Gomez – backend developer at Apiumhub. Interview with Javier Gomez – Backend developer at Apiumhub.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Namely, that LLMs are black boxes that produce nondeterministic outputs and cannot be debugged or tested using traditional software engineering techniques. LLMs are their own beast Unit testing involves asserting predictable outputs for defined inputs, but this obviously cannot be done with LLMs. 100% debuggable? Sound at all familiar?

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 16, 2020

"Write your unit tests before your code," an adage that every developer knows by heart, in theory, but seldom practices it in reality. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a novel concept that instructs developers to write unit test cases before writing even a single line of code.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Nine years ago, I was eager to be a developer but found no convincing platform. This led to my career as an Android developer, where I had the opportunity to learn the nuances of building mobile applications. Web Development Web Development : Focuses on building the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) of applications.

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Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Last month we talked about TDD example in software development ( part 1 ) and TDD first cycle ( part 2 ). In this new TDD and primitive obsession article, we will focus on removing duplication and reinforcing the constructors of our entities, something key to have a robust system. TDD: primitive obsession.

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Coding Dojo

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s inevitable for mistakes to happen during the software development lifecycle – developers are human and everybody makes mistakes. While you may not be able to completely … What Is Test-Driven Development? TDD Guide For Beginners Read More ». TDD Guide For Beginners Read More ».

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Dzone - DevOps

JUNE 24, 2020

At present, most organizations focus on structuring a booming DevOps testing strategy that initiates the adoption of agile best practices related to Continuous Integration (CI). This operation involves developers to check code within a shared repository multiple times in a day. Identify the Correct DevOps Testing Arrangement.

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Honeycomb

JUNE 21, 2023

In the past, we have proposed observability-driven development as a way to maximize your observability and supercharge your development process. But I have a problem with the terminology, and it is: I don’t want observability to drive your development. What is observability-driven development? Should it drive our work?

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 30, 2018

Let’s continue with our series of TDD articles, in the first part we looked at the theory behind the TDD and Unit Testing. In this second part, TDD First Cycle , we begin to develop our application, an application of notes where a user can write notes and everything that comes to our mind. TDD First Cycle.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Writing tests that help evolve a system is hard, and you get there by avoiding smart tests while preferring dumb ones. The Paradox of Smart Tests Smart is always better than dumb, isn’t it? This time we’ll look at the paradox that dumb programmer tests are superior to smart ones. Let’s dive in.

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Apiumhub

JULY 16, 2019

In the software development field, we always hear famous names like Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, George H. That is why today I decided to write about amazing successful, talented and influential women in software development. 20 influential women in software development. . 20 influential women in software development. .

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Gorilla Logic

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In Agile development, a user story provides a simplified description of a software feature from an end user perspective. You can make your user stories stronger with techniques from behavior-driven development (BDD). To add an acceptance scenario to a story, we use Gherkin, a human-readable language for defining test cases.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Without knowing the solution, is TDD worth it? I like to use Test-Driven Development (TDD) when coding. However, in some circumstances, TDD is more of a hinderance than a help. Writing tests only makes sense after the solution is viable. Writing tests only makes sense after the solution is viable.

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