I was talking to a friends of mine about TDD (test driven development, not technical design document). He's a technical director and recently ran a studio of...
One thing that worked for me was to use it enough that I realized it was not really faster to do the quick fixes in the first place. ... From: TOMAS VYKRUTA ...
All of the developers who have told me that they didn't have enough time to test, seemed to have an unlimited amount of time to debug. 8^) GB. ... From: Max...
EGG-ZACT-LY! :) ... From: Gary Brown To: leanprogramming@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [leanprogramming] How to prevent TDD...
I've seen TDD break down because firefighting was rewarded, such as by fixing production through hot-fixes made the developers look good to management. The...
a contact thought ajug user group recently tipped me off on a tool called sonar. it covers a wide range of java code quality analysis tools and metrics as...
The old adage of project management -- "you get what you measure" -- seems apropos here. People are motivated by their own self-interests. If you want to...
... i think people should apply 5 whys / root cause analysis to the original question. in other words, it is my contention that you can put up all the ...
This is a great, solid analysis of why the decay occurs. However, fixing it still isn't easy. No matter how well structured your code base is, bugs will...
Well, frankly, I think you've hit on the central reason that I think all developers should be properly trained in TDD... Simply knowing how to write unit...
The only successful way I've seen TDD be maintained across the organization was to have a strong operations focus. This goes beyond traditional TDD by...
Hi Ben, ... I think you touch on something interesting here -- that in a development effort without close collaboration, everyone tends to focus on their ...
Bucky Fuller once described himself as a 'trim-tab.' He was using the metaphor that trim-tabs on planes and ships enable changing their direction with much...
Dear colleagues, has anyone experiences working as developer (or similar) in Scrum team that is sharing one and the same office (best also in comparison to...
As a developer, working in the same room has HUGE advantages... The lack of privacy is minimal and once rules of conduct are established the 'disturbance' is...
Lean thinking and agile guidance take us in an entirely different direction. Seldom is good code written in the shadows of privacy or the absence of constant...
Hi, I am doing research on how people do TDD to discover ways to make developers' life easier. If you are a developer who practices TDD please answer these two...
Well, in regards to (A), I would say my answer would be: d.) Always read the tests for (B): -If I do not know the program, I will run the program (not the...
Hi, I am doing on tool support for test driven development process. I have enhanced the questions so that it becomes easier to answer: You can also send the...
In my experiences, when the system isn't well covered by tests already (90%+), yes, it can be a problem because it's very hard to see the state of the program...
In my experience, if you have someone on the team that will never bend (no matter what the test coverage percentage is) and always writes the appropriate...
We have quite a few free webinars coming up in November from Net Objectives, so I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of them! The first is November 3,...
