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Things to do to improve code quality

As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I was recently out in Oslo teaching a course on Lean software development. One of the points I make is: Quality is...

3 replies - 43160 views - 06/03/10 by Allan Kelly in News

Conventional TDD is Sin!!

TDD is sin… oops!! conventional TDD is sin(sounds much better than the previous statement :). I completely agree that TDD is the way to write a high quality...

0 replies - 3113 views - 05/24/10 by Ramsundar Kuppusamy in News

Continuous Testing For Ruby On Rails With Autotest And Rspec On Windows

2 replies - 9436 views - 05/24/10 by Alexey Tarasevich in Uncategorized

Test-Driven Javascript

Last year, I founded a start-up with Arlo Belshee and Kim Wallmark. It didn't go anywhere, but one legacy of that project was some interesting solutions to...

1 replies - 3058 views - 05/20/10 by James Shore in News

Test-Driven Development with OSGi

For my thesis in Computer Engineering I'm working on a project built over an OSGi framework. As always, I'm guided by test since I apply Test-Driven...

3 replies - 12163 views - 05/13/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Listening to your tests: An example

I was recently reading a blog post by Esko Luontola where he talks about the direct and indirect effects of TDD and one particularly interesting point he...

0 replies - 3856 views - 04/28/10 by Mark Needham in News

Yet More Praise for Unit Tests

I can't say enough good things about TDD. But I'll try.Due to an epic failure to read the documentation (this, specifically) I couldn't get our RESTful...

1 replies - 4007 views - 04/27/10 by Steven Lott in News

Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (April 16 & 17, Raleigh-Durham, NC)

The Open Information Foundation, co-founded by Jeffrey Fredrick and Paul Julius, presents CITCON North America 2010 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. CITCON...

0 replies - 18963 views - 04/01/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Announcements

TDD: Consistent test structure

While pairing with Damian we came across the fairly common situation where we'd written two different tests – one to handle the positive case and one the...

2 replies - 4250 views - 03/24/10 by Mark Needham in News

Acceptance Test-Driven Development

I am halfway through reading Growing object-oriented software, guided by tests, a book that teaches Test-Driven Development in a Java environment. A...

2 replies - 14393 views - 03/11/10 by Giorgio Sironi in News

Alternatives to Acceptance Testing

My essay on the problems with acceptance testing caused a bit of a furor. (Gojko Adzic, George Dinwiddie, Ron Jeffries.) The biggest criticism was...

1 replies - 11600 views - 03/03/10 by James Shore in News

The State of Agile

Introduction Seems like there's lots going on in the agile world right now. Lots of talk about Lean and it's impact on Agile. Lots of attacks going on at...

1 replies - 1550 views - 12/14/09 by Artem Marchenko in News

An Introduction to Test-Driven Development with Legacy code

Test-Driven Development, or TDD, is often quoted as an essential Agile best practice, and so it is. It works wonders on green-fields projects and new code...

6 replies - 10109 views - 11/23/09 by John Ferguson Smart in News

The Benefits of Testable Code

One of the most beneficial approaches that you can take in software development is to follow a test driven development approach. While we all understand why...

1 replies - 15517 views - 11/17/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Test Infecting Your Team

Recently, a simple question was posed to the Yahoo Test Driven Development (TDD) group. I've seen situations where the person on a team you would single out to...

7 replies - 8147 views - 06/12/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News