James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. They also love test-driven development, pairing, continuous integration, and evolutionary design. They tend to be passionate, senior developers. This is a big cultural shift! And were an XP shop. You see, Extreme Programming is too.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

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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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

In the user acceptance phase of software testing, developers provide part or all of the application to end-users or their representatives to model real-world interactions and functionality. Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway. It tends to snap back. This makes room for a lot more skills.

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Datavail

APRIL 6, 2022

Establishing an IT culture. Modernizing legacy applications is the perfect opportunity to reform your broader IT and engineering culture as well. Consider establishing internal coding standards that will make testing and long-term maintenance easier. Conclusion.

Azure 52

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CircleCI

APRIL 12, 2022

Cloud engineering brings the cloud closer to application development, applying engineering practices and principles to infrastructure and innovating and collaborating faster across the entire team. Pulumi is an infrastructure as code platform you can use to help create a cloud engineering culture in your organization.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. We rolled it out in July, so now’s a good time to share what we’ve learned so far. Here’s the latest version of the ladder. The new ladder focuses on teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code.

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