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Book Review: Integration Testing from the Trenches
In this important and thorough treatise “Integration Testing from the Trenches” Nicolas Frankel starts from basic definitions and develops the concepts of integration testing with a casual formalism that's intuitive and fun.
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God-Mode in Production Code
Takipi is trying to level out the playing field between dev and prod debugging by making it just as easy to debug Java and Scala code in production as it is on your desktop. It detects errors and exceptions in server code, provides analytics to help prioritize them, and captures the source code and values of variables that caused them.
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Agile Architecture Applied
Agile is adaptive. When and how to apply architecture depends on the context. This article first explains why this is the case and then how you can still give proper attention to architecture in an agile setting. Adaptability and conversation are the essentials.
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Taking Back Agile
Tim Ottinger's blog post I want Agile back earlier this year led to discussions in the agile community about the way that organizations are adopting agile and the services that the industry provides to supports them. Together with Ruud Wijnands he started "take back agile" which focuses on technical practices and craftsmanship in agile.
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*-Driven* do not change anything
Michał Bartyzel challenges the need to master a *Driven* approach to be Software Professional. These might be: DDD, TDD, BDD, MDD or other frameworks. He maintains that they may be responsible for cognitive biases rather than playing a supporting role for broader and deeper skills.
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Custom Assertions in Java Tests
Using so-called "matcher libraries" to implement custom assertions to make tests more readable and maintainable.
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Quality Code - Book Review and Interview
Quality Code book, authored by Stephen Vance, covers the different aspects of software development lifecycle with focus on delivering quality product. In the book, Stephen discusses the practices for supporting software craftsmanship testing. InfoQ spoke with the author about the book and the best practices for testing application code.
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Book Review: Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef - Second Edition
The second edition of Stephen Nelson-Smith's book "Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef" covers the principles behind "Infrastructure as Code", provides an introduction to Ruby, Chef, and important Tools. The main part consists of detailed examples on how to use the tools required to write fully tested infrastructure code.
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Book Review and Author Q&A - Explore It! by Elisabeth Hendrickson
Elisabeth Hendrickson has released a book on the practices, techniques and mindset of exploratory testing. Sharon Robson reviewed the book and raised some questions with the author.
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The Perfect Dev/Test Lab: 10 Principles that make it Possible
Software that drives the business typically takes inordinate amounts of time to develop and test. Now with new technologies able to normalize the private and public clouds the ultimate software development lab is not only feasible but cost-effective as well. To achieve hyper-agile software development, here are key principles for building the next-gen dev/test lab of enterprise DevOps’ dreams.
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Is Your Application Ready?
We mostly ship software by date, squeezing all development and testing efforts toward that deadline. We prioritize what we think is important, and once our application passes a certain quality level, we’re ready to go live. But even when we do ship, can we tell the readiness status of our application?
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ATDD From the Trenches
A concrete example of how to get started with acceptance-test driven development on an existing code base. It is part of the solution to technical debt.