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AI-native software engineering may be closer than developers think

CIO

Organizations and vendors are already rolling out AI coding agents that enable developers to fully automate or offload many tasks, with more pilot programs and proofs-of-concept likely to be launched in 2025, says Philip Walsh, senior principal analyst in Gartner’s software engineering practice. This technology already exists.”

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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Here’s a secret: it’s not for the tests. Learn about the actual goal and values hidden under the surface of Test-Driven Development. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a controversial topic amongst developers. It is a vehicle to drive development. Why do people apply TDD?

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

But I’m hoping that will help provide clarity to engineers and give them the opportunity to pick and choose which skills they want to work on first. We also offer step promotions, such as Software Engineer 1 to Software Engineer 2, which come when the engineer is proportionally far along their way to the next title.)

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. 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. So I told the truth.

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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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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

Just as the ladder sets new expectations of engineers, the management track sets new expectations for managers, with material about managing the system rather than just managing the work. Software Engineer Software Engineers contribute to the work of their team without explicit guidance.

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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. Building Quality JavaScript With Test-Driven Development. Have you let testing fall to the wayside? Have you let testing fall to the wayside?