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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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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

The author is an Assistant Professor in Software Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. The book apparently grew out of lecture notes from a course on software testing. This chapter uses the example of converting Roman numerals to integers to show how TDD works. Not all situations benefit from TDD.

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6 Talks We’re Excited to Hear This Year at the Kansas City Developer Conference

OverOps

Dig in deeper with this intermediate-level session with Jayashree S Kumar, a Software Engineer at IBM’s India Software Labs. Learn to apply TDD in Javascript with Steven Hicks, Senior Engineer, speaker, writer and teacher who embraces the philosophy that a developer’s job is to solve problems, not just write code.

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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Jacque Garcia, CircleCI Software Engineer

CircleCI

From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers. In this interview, we spoke to CircleCI Software Engineer, Jacque Garcia. I’m a software engineer on the X Team.

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How to build confidence as an engineer: an interview with Glen Mailer, CircleCI Staff Software Engineer

CircleCI

From the technical executives to folks on the ground in engineering, management and site reliability, we wanted to know what “confidence” meant to them, and how it had changed over the course of their careers. In this interview, we spoke to CircleCI Staff Software Engineer, Glen Mailer. We hope you enjoy it. And if so, how?

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. You can’t really write unit tests for this (nor practice TDD). It’s important to understand this, and why. 100% debuggable?

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Frontend developer based in Barcelona, join us!

Apiumhub

We follow strict agile principles and always use TDD & CI. Bachelor Degree in computer sciences, software engineering or similar. Experience in working with TDD & CI. We work with companies from different industries and build web platforms and mobile apps to be proud of! Meet the team ! Local citizen.