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Article: How to Spread Technical Practices Like TDD in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

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.

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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Why do people apply TDD? What Are the Real Reasons for Doing TDD? Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers. After many years of doing TDD daily, I think part of the reason is that some people do not fully grasp the reasons behind TDD. TDD and the Values of XP.

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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

TechCrunch

Bilt Rewards, which works with some of the country’s largest multifamily owners and operators to create loyalty programs and a co-branded credit card for property renters, entered unicorn status after securing $150 million in a growth round at a $1.5 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. .”

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TDD saved the day

Xebia

To tackle each operation, I started with a small test, following the principles of Test-Driven Development (TDD). As an aside, TDD is an iterative workflow that involves describing a specific aspect you want to solve in terms of the programming language you’re using. Truly, TDD saved the day!

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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

The author is an Assistant Professor in Software Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. It starts with understanding what the program is supposed to do, and to identify the types and domains of the inputs and outputs. The idea is to find all the different partitions, in order to test the complete behavior of the program.

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Real World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This post is a brief commentary on Martin Fowler’s post, An Example of LLM Prompting for Programming. There’s a lot of excitement about how the GPT models and their successors will change programming. At least in theory, test driven development (TDD) is widely practiced among professional programmers. That excitement is merited.

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3 Stages of Learning a New Technology

Robots and Pencils

This article describes my strategy for learning new technologies, refined over the decade or so that I’ve been working in tech. When I talk about learning a technology, I mean something pretty concrete. I would apply this approach to: programming languages data stores libraries and frameworks tools (git, Docker, Regex, etc.)