James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

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. To recap, our career ladder is a tool for cultural change. AI is a great tool.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

In many organizations, automated testing lags behind and becomes a bottleneck for successful continuous delivery. Either tests do not provide enough confidence or companies take a very traditional approach, resulting in releases either introducing substantial risks or becoming costly. These principles tell us our tests should be: Fast.

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Toptal

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Any piece of code that has no tests is said to be legacy code according to Michael Feathers. Therefore, one of the best ways to avoid creating legacy code is using test-driven development (TDD). component with basic functionality using TDD.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

import Figure from '@/components/global/figure.astro'; import TestXs from 'src/content/blog/misconceptions-with-test-driven-development/images/test-xs.jpg'; In the past few weeks I've heard several misconceptions raised about Test Driven Development: Does TDD really work?

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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). What ILiked The Most.

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2024

However, the purpose of this blog is not just to describe the toolset, but to share our development approach and some valuable lessons I (re)learned along the way. Our development approach Here is an overview of how we introduce new capabilities into the tool: 1. This typically concludes with the removal of the original code.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

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CircleCI

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Software is one of the most complex tools invented for practical use. So, careful testing is an essential requirement before publishing any code. DevOps teams and developers have introduced several approaches to software testing over the years. Different test categories are not exclusive but rather complementary.

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Perficient

MARCH 9, 2024

I don’t like testing Databricks notebooks and that’s a problem. I like Test Driven Development. Databricks has documentation for unit testing. I tried to test one notebook using another notebook. I tried to test one notebook using another notebook. I like Databricks. They are very good.

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CodeSignal

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

When a candidate has made it past the initial screening process, we’d typically like to take a closer look at their work, so there’s less of a need for automated testing. In this particular case, this task uses RSpec, a testing framework for Ruby which is one among many tools and frameworks supported by the CodeSignal platform.

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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. To improve test discipline.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Submit a proposal for a talk at our new virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It.Proposals must be submitted by March 5; the conference will take place April 24, 2025, from 11AM to 3PM EDT. When tools like GitHub Copilot first appeared, it was received wisdom that AI would make programming easier.

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Perficient

MARCH 9, 2024

I don’t like testing Databricks notebooks and that’s a problem. I like Test Driven Development. Databricks has documentation for unit testing. I tried to test one notebook using another notebook. I tried to test one notebook using another notebook. I like Databricks. They are very good.

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CircleCI

APRIL 5, 2022

End-to-end testing, also known as E2E testing, is a methodology used for ensuring that applications behave as expected and that the flow of data is maintained for all kinds of user tasks and processes. This type of testing approach starts from the end user’s perspective and simulates a real-world scenario.

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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. Fast, reliable tests are a game changer.

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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? Integration testing. Unit testing.

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OverOps

JULY 15, 2019

With the amount of tools that have flooded the market over the last few years, implementing CI/CD workflows is easier than ever before. As new tools are introduced to accelerate integration and delivery of new code, it’s important to ensure that your team is able to embrace the cultural shift necessary to support these new workflows.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

When you develop a CLI tool, your project structure is quite simple. Running tests I am a fan of TDD (test driven development), so obviously I wrote tests for my lambda functions. But with this multi-module workspace setup it’s hard to run all tests. If you run go test./.

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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. It’s possible to minimize this point and say it’s only relevant to debugging or testing.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 25, 2023

Many of the prompts are about testing: ChatGPT is instructed to generate tests for each function that it generates. At least in theory, test driven development (TDD) is widely practiced among professional programmers. If AI systems write the tests, do those tests themselves need to be tested?

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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. To improve test discipline.

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CircleCI

MAY 13, 2021

What better way to determine that than to set up a system to test the database to ascertain its capabilities? What is database testing? We have looked at testing code and also how to properly test APIs , but what about the data layer of our application? What is database testing all about? What should I test?

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

One of the most important insights into agile development that we’ve learned over the past 25 years at Tanzu Labs is that very few people can predict what those workflows are. How to do agile development right Speeding up release cycles can be surprisingly quick.

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InnovationM

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the realm of modern software development, testing is indispensable. Among the plethora of testing frameworks available, Jest stands out as a powerful and developer-friendly tool for testing JavaScript applications. It ensures the reliability, stability, and quality of our codebases.

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Gorilla Logic

JULY 28, 2023

Software development and testing go hand in hand. Making sure that our code and apps behave the way they should is key, and it’s important to know that testing isn’t just a QA’s job. As developers, we can start that process from the very beginning by using unit testing, and doing so on frameworks like Angular is extremely easy.

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CTOvision

MAY 1, 2014

The senior engineer will also take a lead role in interfacing with customer groups to understand their needs and tailor reports to enable data-driven decisions across key business areas. The senior engineer will have a great deal of freedom in choosing the right tools for the job, and will have strong support in getting it right.

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Trigent

AUGUST 7, 2022

The way of testing has transformed with the rising usage of DevOps, cloud, and agile in new tech. Setting up, Scaling, or transforming your testing organization brings challenges concerning Agile/DevOps adoption, process, and test automation implementation, or even scaling the teams’ capacity. Strategies for your QA outsourcing.

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CircleCI

APRIL 30, 2021

Docker is a platform for developers and sysadmins to develop, deploy, and run applications using containers. Docker is also referred to as an application packaging tool. Docker enables the most powerful benefits of continuous integration and delivery : building and testing in isolation. Testing Docker containers.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2020

To improve speed to market, dev teams have begun to move from automating their testing to the next stage of DevOps maturity - automating their deploys. To address this issue, we’ve put together test-specific orbs to help teams determine their code coverage and where their tests are lacking. Deploy applications to AWS CodeDeploy.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2018

When programmers use test-driven development (TDD), the code they test interacts with other parts of the system that aren't being tested. To test those interactions, and to prevent the other code from interfering with their tests, programmers often use mock objects or other test doubles.

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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 17, 2023

Increasing test coverage and earlier detection of defects by creating automated tests based on the defined scenarios. It enhances your existing Agile approach , synthesizing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD). Net), or Behave (Python).

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Python (Django, Flask) : Python is a versatile programming language; Django is a high-level framework for rapid web development, while Flask is a lightweight framework offering flexibility and simplicity. Use platform-specific tools: Android Studio (Android) or Xcode (iOS). Recommended Resources: Android Developer Docs.

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CircleCI

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

It is the final stage in the process of software development automation. With continuous deployment, all commits that pass the automated CI tests are deployed to an actual production environment. Traditionally, software development teams were primarily concerned with their release schedules.

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Gorilla Logic

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In fact, it provides a lot of tools for the teams to recalibrate the plan as needed every Iteration Planning, equipping them with a better shot of delivering what was committed to at the end of the PI Planning event. Well, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed that it does not have to be that way, as long as you have the right tools for the job.

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SCRUMstudy

MARCH 29, 2018

A suitable Agile method can be picked from compatible Agile methodologies such as Test Driven Development, Crystal, and Adaptive Software development. Agile is a tool which has to be put into practice with discipline and a strict adherence to the core values and principles of the Agile Manifesto.

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Xebia

JANUARY 30, 2024

While rigorous software development practices like comprehensive automated testing, and even Test Driven Development (TDD), combined with consideration for edge cases, can guard against many issues, there’s always the possibility of unforeseen errors. However, does it truly assist us?

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Namely, that LLMs are black boxes that produce nondeterministic outputs and cannot be debugged or tested using traditional software engineering techniques. Maybe not Software is traditionally assumed to be testable, debuggable, and reproducible, depending on the flexibility and maturity of your tooling and the complexity of your code.

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