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A Next Step Beyond Test Driven Development

Honeycomb

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. I have been referring to that approach as “observability-driven development”, or ODD.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

Test-Driven Development. It’s test-driven development, and it actually delivers these results. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. Test-driven development applies the same principle to programmers’ intention.

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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

Particularly the chapters on how to systematically come up with test cases based on the specification, inputs, outputs and the structure of the implementation. He has also worked for several years as a developer. The book apparently grew out of lecture notes from a course on software testing. Test-driven development.

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Continuous Testing Success With Automation and Effective Frameworks

Dzone - DevOps

Continuous Testing , a term that started to increase in popularity in mid-2019, has made its way into many of today’s CI/CD processes used in the SDLC, but what exactly does the phrase mean? Continuous testing (CT) refers to the idea of automated testing of software as it passes through various stages in the software delivery pipeline.

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AoAD2 Practice: Refactoring

James Shore

Test-Driven Development. Technically, you can refactor at any time, but unless your IDE has provably-safe refactorings, it’s best to do it when you have a good suite of tests that are all passing. Test-Driven Development. 1 XXX replace with direct reference when Continuous Deployment is written.

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Clojure microservices for JavaScript developers

CircleCI

In object-oriented languages, objects are passed by reference. However, in JavaScript, we tend to lean on test-driven-development and running our web app locally to power our development workflow. In Clojure (and many other Lisps), the REPL is central to the development workflow. Immutability.

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Continuous deployment with CircleCI orbs: automate deploys to AWS, GCP, K8s, and more

CircleCI

To address this issue, we’ve put together test-specific orbs to help teams determine their code coverage and where their tests are lacking. Check out our post on test-driven development for more of our thoughts on how to write the most useful tests. LaunchDarkly. Salesforce.

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