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! Most teams have slow, brittle tests. And were an XP shop.

Engineering 141

Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team Agile 141

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.

Software Review 130

Software Review Testing Systems Review Technical Review 130

CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

When you think of software testing, what comes up first? For many developers, unit tests and integration tests are often top of mind. Both software testing methods are vital to writing and maintaining a high-quality production codebase. What is functional testing? Integration testing. Unit testing.

Software Review 98

Software Review Testing Software Weak Development Team 98

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.

Software Engineering 75

Software Engineering Engineering Technical Advisors Software 75

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.

Software Engineering 63

Software Engineering Technical Advisors Engineering Software 63

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.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Cloud Data Center Test-Driven Development 52

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.

Azure 52

Azure Metrics Test-Driven Development Applications 52