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Who does test-driven development?
I've been working in the enterprise space for the past 4½ years and have noticed that generally speaking, enterprises are not conducive environments for the test-first style of development. Projects ...
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11answers
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At what point would you drop some of your principles of software development for the sake of more money?
I'd like to throw this question out there to interestingly see where the medium is.
I'm going to admit that in my last 12 months, I picked up TDD and a lot of the Agile values in software ...
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7answers
977 views
TDD/Tests too much an overhead/maintenance burden?
So you've heard it many times from those who do not truly understand the values of testing. Just to start things out, I'm a follower of Agile and Testing...
I recently had a discussion about ...
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4answers
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What is an integration test exactly?
My friends and I have been struggling to classify exactly what is an integration test.
Now, on my way home, I just realised, that every time I try to give a real world example of an integration ...
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4answers
679 views
Why can't we get anything done?
I work on a small team, in a medium-sized company, most of which isn't involved in software development. I'm the newest and least-experienced developer and had no professional or academic background ...
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7answers
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Acceptance tests done first…how can this be accomplished?
The basic gist of most Agile methods is that a feature is not "done" until it's been developed, tested, and in many cases released. This is supposed to happen in quick turnaround chunks of time such ...
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3answers
305 views
agile / scrum and functional specs
I work in a small team of four devs, one domain expert and one manager. We are looking to move to using scrum to try and formalise our processes.
From what I understand of agile, it seems to be ...
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2answers
282 views
Behavior-Driven Development / Use case diagram
Regarding growing of Behavior-Driven Development imposing acceptance testing, are use cases diagram useful or do they lead to an "over-documentation"?
Indeed, acceptance tests representing ...
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3answers
315 views
Test planning for an Agile sprint
Can anyone offer any tips or experience on developing a test plan for an Agile sprint? Most of the time our team simply creates a "Test Feature X" task and goes about writing ad-hoc test cases. There ...
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1answer
181 views
Shared QA responsibilities on an Agile team
For many years our IT development group subscribed to the waterfall software development methodology with segregated pods of programmers specializing in database development, logic layer and ...
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4answers
165 views
How to handle committed and merged code that has no tests?
When developing an application in a team not everyone on this team will be equally good developers. Some will be skilled in some things and some in others and some not at all.
As a team working in an ...
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2answers
494 views
Parallel Testing options in Agile Development?
I've read through some very good resources on the internet trying to find out if my initial proposed testing process is a valid option. So please any advice or recommendations are appreciated.
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5answers
218 views
Facing quality issues
A workforce management software has complex GUI (for example values in a page depends on the status (closed or open) of other pages). Only latest and near past development has test coverage. During ...
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1answer
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Link between tests and user stories
I have not see these links explicitly stated in the Agile literature I have read. So, I was wondering if this approach was correct: Let a story be defined as "In order to [RESULT], [ROLE] needs to ...
