James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. Our software would be easy to modify and maintain. We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. They also love test-driven development, pairing, continuous integration, and evolutionary design. So I told the truth. Lovability.

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James Shore

MARCH 29, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development. We produce high-quality code in small, verifiable steps. At best, mistakes lead to code that won’t compile. No wonder, then, that software is buggy. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. Why TDD Works.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. To improve code and test practices. If waiting for defects to escape is too risky for you, have experienced QA testers conduct exploratory testing and conduct root-cause analysis on the results. James Shore/Blog.

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2024

One such initiative involves developing a toolset for assessing a customer’s situation. This toolset (working title: Truffleswine) allows us to retrieve relevant data from systems quickly, which in turn helps us ask the right questions sooner and clarify business cases for improvement using actual data.

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NeverFriday

JUNE 7, 2013

James Shore, author of the book “The Art of Agile”, wrote an article that covers the alternatives to acceptance testing. The way you write an acceptance test is to take a user story and then write code that tests the end result of a software process. James Shore, Alternatives to Acceptance Testing.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

It reduces the cost of testing and supports keeping long-term, high-development velocities. Test automation is not a project or a one-off—it is part of the development lifecycle and should be seen as its own system that needs to evolve over time as the requirements and system under test change and mature.

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Xoriant

JUNE 9, 2015

TDD is an Agile Development technique in which developers write test cases before writing the corresponding code for the user story assigned to him. Once the code passes the Acceptance test, the code is then refactored /simplified to be used as production code. Role of QA in TDD.

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James Shore

MARCH 10, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Collective Code Ownership. Developers. We are all responsible for all our code. But how does that apply to code? Collective code ownership means the team shares responsibility for their code. It’s your code. Mob Programming.

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James Shore

MARCH 17, 2022

Fast, Reliable Tests. Our tests don’t get in our way. Test-Driven Development. Teams who embrace test-driven development accumulate thousands of tests. The more tests you have, the more important speed and reliability become. Rely on Narrow Unit Tests. Details here.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 25, 2023

At a glance, it’s clear that the prompts Xu Hao uses to generate working code are very long and complex. Writing these prompts requires significant expertise, both in the use of ChatGPT and in software development. First, note the overall strategy Xu Hao uses to write this code. His first prompt is very long.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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. In theory , all software is debuggable. There is a much longer list of things that make software less than 100% debuggable in practice.

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James Shore

JANUARY 31, 2019

If you're using test-driven development, don't measure unit test code coverage. To improve code and test practices. If waiting for defects to escape is too risky for you, have experienced QA testers conduct exploratory testing and conduct root-cause analysis on the results. James Shore/Blog.

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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 second category would be test – driven development where a test case is created before any code is developed and the tests need to pass before code can be submitted.

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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

When you think of software testing, what comes up first? For many developers, unit tests and integration tests are often top of mind. Both software testing methods are vital to writing and maintaining a high-quality production codebase. What is functional testing? Unit tests are limited though.

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Gorilla Logic

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In Agile development, a user story provides a simplified description of a software feature from an end user perspective. You can make your user stories stronger with techniques from behavior-driven development (BDD). Developers: Pass each of the test scenarios created for each story, and pass all the test scenarios. .

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Gorilla Logic

MAY 19, 2021

Should you build software in-house or outsource it? It turns out that access to talented developers may be one of the most challenging pieces of the puzzle. . Ready to have a conversation about outsourcing your development to a top-ranked Agile development team? Let’s talk. As much as 51 percent of U.S.

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Honeycomb

JUNE 21, 2023

But I have a problem with the terminology, and it is: I don’t want observability to drive your development. What is observability-driven development? Observability-driven development implies that you think about observability before you write a line of code. TDD is a great design practice.

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The Programmer's Paradox

MARCH 16, 2023

It all has to be very reactive; you keep fiddling with the code until it gets traction. Under those conditions, it doesn’t make sense to cross all the t’s and dot the i’s as the life expectancy of the code is weeks or months. We see the same kinda thing with unit testing. So you build, pivot, build, pivot, etc.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 30, 2023

Custom software development plays an important role in taking your project to the next level. Custom software development gives your business the flexibility and compatibility to scale up or down and tailor it to your needs. The alternative, off-the-shelf software could be inefficient or inadequate.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Kotlin : A modern, concise, and expressive programming language that runs on the JVM, is fully interoperable with Java, and is officially recommended by Google for Android app development due to its safety and productivity features. Build projects like smart home systems or sensors. Recommended Resources: AWS Free Tier.

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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 17, 2023

Experiences like these make many developers think about using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). BDD emphasizes collaboration between developers, testers, and stakeholders to define and deliver software that meets business requirements. For each team member, ask: Are they familiar with BDD or TDD?

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Henrik Warne

AUGUST 20, 2017

I recently found out about the book Developer Testing – Building Quality Into Software by Alexander Tarlinder , and I immediately wanted to read it. Even though I am a developer at heart, I have always been interested in software testing (I even worked as a tester for two years). Dependencies.

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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. They want to see something that will help them make decisions about their code.

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James Shore

APRIL 9, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. We revise and improve the design of existing code. That’s what everybody says: entropy is inevitable, and chaos eventually turns your beautifully imagined, well-designed code into a big mess of spaghetti. Test-Driven Development. Refactoring.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Writing tests that help evolve a system is hard, and you get there by avoiding smart tests while preferring dumb ones. The Paradox of Smart Tests Smart is always better than dumb, isn’t it? This time we’ll look at the paradox that dumb programmer tests are superior to smart ones. Let’s dive in.

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CircleCI

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Go , an open-source programming language backed by Google, makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. All network applications need well-tested features, and those developed in Go are no different. In this tutorial, we will be building and testing a simple Go blog. Prerequisites. A GitHub account.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

To succeed, you need to understand the fundamentals of security, data storage, hardware, software, networking, and IT management frameworks — and how they all work together to deliver business value. It covers Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD).

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CircleCI

APRIL 5, 2022

Some other testing types you should consider: Unit testing makes sure that every single component in a system works as expected. Functional testing makes sure that the system gives the correct output for a particular input. End-to-end testing also improves the user experience. Time consuming.

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James Shore

APRIL 26, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. It’s Not Just Coding. Computers don’t care what your code looks like. If the code compiles and runs, the computer is happy.

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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. Apply Clean Code.

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James Shore

JUNE 2, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. How about a real-time embedded system? Productivity was measured at almost three times the level for comparable embedded software teams.

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CircleCI

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As engineering teams increasingly adopt DevOps as their software development strategy, they are becoming faster and more efficient. Unfortunately, this speed and efficiency can expose cracks in the delivery system as well as other bottlenecks to productivity. A manual step is required to deploy the code to production.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 4, 2019

Reinforcement Learning: Building Recommender Systems , August 16. Product Management for Enterprise Software , July 18. The Power of Lean in Software Projects , July 25. Advanced Test-Driven Development (TDD) , June 27. Test-Driven Development In Python , June 28. Blockchain.

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Honeycomb

JULY 26, 2022

You’ll be relieved to hear that you’re in the majority, and also that there are quick (and easy) steps you can do to prove that instrumenting your code is worthwhile. Is the system working? First, let’s talk about what makes a system “work.” If we don’t know that our system is running, then it’s not done.

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James Shore

MAY 26, 2021

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. For many teams, releasing their software is the same as deploying their software. Test-Driven Development. Programmers.

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Coveros

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I was with a privately held software engineering firm focused on helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities. Some were not born yet, others mid-flight in our IT careers, and still others moving toward our mature technology years. 2011–2020 and Beyond. 2011–2020 and Beyond.

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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. In technical terms: through the entire system, not a description of the component layers or technical need ( as illustrated by the picture ). Usability Review Completed. Performance Tests run.

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