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Does TDD mean someone is a better developer?

January 18, 2022

Does TDD mean someone is a better developer? Does TDD automatically lead to amazing design? Does TDD turn development into …

What’s worse? TDD does badly? Or TLD done badly?

January 12, 2022

What’s worse? TDD does badly? Or TLD done badly? Which one causes MORE damage? When talking about TDD, we always …

TDD isn’t as easy as it looks. Clean architecture isn’t either.

January 11, 2022

TDD isn’t as easy as it looks in tutorials. Clean architecture isn’t either. A common complaint regarding TDD training is …

TLD = Running around in circles!

January 11, 2022

TLD = Running around in circles! TLD provides longer feedback loops, you have more rework.TDD provides shorter feedback loops, you …

TDD provides 5 rapid feedback loops

January 10, 2022

TDD provides 5 rapid feedback loops during software development. Feedback loops are essential in keeping us on-track towards reaching goals.…

100% Unit Testability in Hexagonal Architecture

January 4, 2022

100% Unit Testability in Hexagonal Architecture Let’s go back in time… to the “traditional” 3-layered architecture. Here, we implement the …

Unit tests: Run in isolation. Run fast. Run deterministically.

January 3, 2022

Unit tests: Run in isolation. Run fast. Run deterministically. Running in isolation means the tests should be independent of each …

Chicago TDD vs London TDD – Which one is should you use?

December 28, 2021

Chicago TDD vs London TDD – Which one is should you use? Is there one GLOBAL answer or is it …

DD Dialogue: London School vs Chicago School

December 27, 2021

TDD Dialogue: London School vs Chicago School. Do you find contradictions when reading about TDD? People can’t agree on what’s …

How do you know that your User Story is truly “Done”?

December 27, 2021

How do you know that your User Story is truly “Done”? How do you know that existing functionality isn’t broken …

Continuous Value Delivery: A Spectrum

December 24, 2021

Continuous Value Delivery: A Spectrum “Value” refers to the business value that the business gets from the usage of the …

The future of software engineering

December 23, 2021

The future of software engineering is: Standardization. Why? Achieving quality at a large scale, in a reproducible way. Quality isn’t …

The failed Agile Transformation.

December 21, 2021

The failed Agile Transformation. … This is a story of what happens when companies introduce “agile” but do NOT introduce …

You can’t be agile without CI/CD and TDD.

December 17, 2021

You can’t be agile without CI/CD and TDD. Unfortunately, agility is often “sold” as a PM silver bullet, e.g. that …

Why Contract-First Development (CFD)?

December 15, 2021

Why Contract-First Development (CFD)? Defining contracts before coding helps us gain a transparent view of the communication between systems. Key …

3 Stories – Test Last Development (TLD) and Test Driven Development (TDD)

December 13, 2021

Story 1: Endless Test-Last Development (TLD) – a common reality Month 1-3: “We’re just getting started, this is just a …

Key Benefits of Knowledge Management in the IT Industry

December 26, 2020

My journey in Knowledge Management started two decades ago. Whilst at school, I preferred learning by synthesizing information from multiple …

There’s no time for Unit Testing

November 26, 2020

Jake looked at the clock. The whole day passed and he had only done a few tickets. Not that much …

Improving software quality assurance and developing better software

October 29, 2014

Most people would agree that quality is an important part of software projects. However, the question is, what is quality,…