CIO

JULY 12, 2022

Few budgets can meet the continuous need for up-to-the-minute learning and training, particularly in fast-evolving tech areas such as programming languages, software development, containerization, and cloud computing. They’re adding community-driven learning to their existing training approaches. A fresh approach is needed.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Strategies for Testing Redux Action Creators Testing Action creators are functions that return actions. toEqual(expectedAction); }); Reducers Testing Reducers are functions that specify how the application’s state changes in response to an action. Have fun with your tests!

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KitelyTech

JANUARY 14, 2023

In 2023, software development methodologies will continue to evolve as technology progresses. With the right software development methodologies, your team can be empowered to create innovative products that are both cost-effective and able to meet the demands of the market.

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Xebia

JULY 27, 2022

Growing as a software developer is hard. The Pragmatic Programmer will help you develop that consciousness for code. Do you want to develop a sense for when code is well- or ill-written? Are you missing guidelines for the craft of software development? What makes an effective developer? Key Takeaways.

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Code Simplicity

MAY 10, 2014

Today there was an interesting discussion between Kent Beck , Martin Fowler , and David Heinemeier Hansson on the nature and use of Test-Driven Development (TDD), where one writes tests first and then writes code. It’s possible to minimize this point and say it’s only relevant to debugging or testing.

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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 first category would be a team identifying unsolvable issues during refinement , or realizing the value of the feature has diminished. An example of a high-level risk-based quality strategy is the following: .

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Write simple, straightforward, or “dumb” tests, not intricate and full of magic or “smart” ones. Let’s have a look at smart tests first. Anatomy of a Smart Test What is a smart test, then? Smart tests contain logic obscuring the true meaning of the test.

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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. Learn here how to be the developer that every company and every client wants to have. Being a professional developer is crucial in the software industry. For example.

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Xebia

JUNE 6, 2023

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. For example, when a node is added, it often involves adding a few related relationships.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 25, 2023

This post is a brief commentary on Martin Fowler’s post, An Example of LLM Prompting for Programming. Writing these prompts requires significant expertise, both in the use of ChatGPT and in software development. Many of the prompts are about testing: ChatGPT is instructed to generate tests for each function that it generates.

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CircleCI

APRIL 5, 2022

End-to-end testing, also known as E2E testing, is a methodology used for ensuring that applications behave as expected and that the flow of data is maintained for all kinds of user tasks and processes. This type of testing approach starts from the end user’s perspective and simulates a real-world scenario.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JANUARY 30, 2019

We can then show examples of where it isn’t a good fit. Scrum has been used effectively with teams in a diverse array of industries, including Software Development (where it grew up), Hardware Development, Manufacturing[1], Marketing[2], HR… even Fighter Planes[3] and Gas Plant Design[4]! Where is Scrum Applicable?

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CircleCI

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Other dependencies can be swapped out to allow for testing in isolation. Unit testing is also the heart of an advanced software development process called test-driven development. In the test-driven dev process, DevOps professionals and developers write tests before the actual implementation.

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2024

Without a clear design, we use pair programming and test-driven development (TDD) until we are satisfied, focusing on the desired API first. We try new development tools that we cant always use at our assignment at a customer. For example, GitHub Copilot is incredibly helpful when writing code.

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InnovationM

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the realm of modern software development, testing is indispensable. Among the plethora of testing frameworks available, Jest stands out as a powerful and developer-friendly tool for testing JavaScript applications. It ensures the reliability, stability, and quality of our codebases.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 10, 2019

While Acceptance Criteria is a commonly understood concept in software development, Definition of “Done” is unique to Scrum. Here is an example of User Stories for an imaginary Point-of-Sale system. Whenever changes are made to existing code, a Unit Test is written to cover that method. The user is denoted as a Buyer.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

This is a guest story by Sydney Stone, a writer for a software development company iTechArt. Code refactoring is a process used in the DevOps software development approach that involves editing and cleaning up previously written software code without changing the function of the code at all.

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Gorilla Logic

MAY 19, 2021

In fact, the global market for application outsourcing , which includes application development, testing, and maintenance, is expected to exceed $108 billion in 2021. companies outsource software development (Statista), including well-known companies such as Slack, WhatsApp, Google, Alibaba, and GitHub.

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Gorilla Logic

JANUARY 9, 2020

Many software development teams struggle to build a user interface (UI) automation testing platform that delivers both stability and reliability. In this blog series, I will explain how to build a basic UI automation framework combining Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Selenium with Python. What is Gherkin?

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Leverage Your QA Experience : Highlight skills like testing, debugging, and attention to detail when transitioning to development roles. Learn Test-Driven Development (TDD) and how to write unit and integration tests. Examples: A weather app, an e-commerce backend, or a simple game.

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James Shore

JUNE 2, 2021

These folks had everything stacked against them—except their coach and her approach to software development. QSM Associates is a well-regarded company that performs independent audits of software development teams. Test-Driven Development. Test-driven development is your defect-elimination workhorse.

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Gorilla Logic

JULY 28, 2023

Software development and testing go hand in hand. Making sure that our code and apps behave the way they should is key, and it’s important to know that testing isn’t just a QA’s job. From the very start of an Angular project’s creation, we are given the foundation to start building unit tests.

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Apiumhub

JANUARY 6, 2020

As software teams seek higher agility, the tools and techniques for software development and delivery continue to evolve every year. DevOps and CI/CD practices provide a solid framework that allows teams to release software with increased automation and with less risk. Feature Flag driven development.

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Accenture

APRIL 12, 2018

Yet it may surprise you that much of the software we use every day is poorly written and designed, has little code coverage, and has created in users such low expectations that people – despite much bellyaching – simply put up with. SolutionsIQ’s Dave Wylie has a passion for excellence in software engineering.

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CircleCI

MAY 13, 2021

In software development, processing and storing data in different states reflects the business rules an application is built on. The heart and soul of any software application is the data that is persisted in databases for retrieval and further processing. Most database testing systems are comprised of more than just one tool.

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Apiumhub

JULY 23, 2019

Job titles like “Technical Architect” and “Chief Architect” nowadays abound in software industry, yet many people suspect that “architecture” is one of the most overused and least understood terms in professional software development. All approaches are illustrated by an ongoing real-world example. . .

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This article will discuss the nature of behavior-driven development and how it can be used successfully by an organization to assist its technical team in delivering software that fulfills its goals. What is Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)? How does it do that? What Are the Benefits of BDD?

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If you have only instrumented your software with metrics, for example, you have no way of verifying that a spike in api_requests and an identical spike in 503 errors are for the same events (i.e., This means shipping sooner, observing the results, and wrapping your observations back into the development process.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Associate Software Engineers Associate Software Engineer 1s are at the start of their career. You can find descriptions of each skill in the documentation.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Modern software development takes a lot of skills. Customer Examples. Most of their time is spent figuring out the details of upcoming work, creating examples of complicated rules, and answering questions when programmers ask. Until then, development on an Agile team looks similar to development on any other team.

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taos

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Technical Consultant Operating our infrastructure as code delivers a world of best practices from the realm of software development. One practice less frequently discussed is test-driven-development: write a test-case for the infrastructure before writing the implementation. These practices are now common.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

My preferred type of Agile coach is the player-coach : a full-time member of the team who has genuine expertise and leads by example. If there are people on your teams who can’t do that—for example, if they’re in very different time zones—either rearrange your teams or choose different teams to be Agile.

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Tenable

MAY 23, 2022

As a critical part of DevSecOps, shifting left has become a key aspect of the modern software development process. Traditionally, security was applied at the end of the software development lifecycle (the right side) and treated as an afterthought. Adopt a test-driven development approach .

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Marcusoft

MARCH 11, 2024

For example, the true meaning of words and phrases. The reasons we want to make the stories small are plentiful; it’s easier to manage, implement, fix, deploy, and test… just about anything we do as a software development team. For example this: Numbers simulation - less is more!

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 6, 2018

If you’re unfamiliar with how a Team Board works or what it looks like, I posted an example of a Kanban Board previously on this blog. For example, inside of Java Development, we might write down specific libraries or tools that team members use. Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development).

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

Each employee was expected to take ownership of their progression by providing examples of their skills. Each example was entered into a spreadsheet and given a score of 1-5 by their manager (or rejected entirely). Verdict: So far, so good. Manager-Led Evaluation The old career ladder was employee-led.

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Perficient

JUNE 12, 2024

A CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipeline is an automated workflow or series of steps that developers use to build, test, and deploy their code changes. It’s a crucial part of modern software development, promoting efficiency, reliability, and consistency in the software development process.

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