Software development is an inherently complex process. With each line of code, software grows more complex, harder to change and prone to defects. Test-driven development, or TDD, was introduced as a way to reduce these defects by writing a test first, watching it fail, writing a minimal amount of code to make it pass and […]
Software development has transitioned from a waterfall to an Agile approach over the past decade. Since Agile development involves continuous change, testing has become invaluable to prevent these frequent changes from introducing new bugs, or worse, breaking the application in production. Most developers are familiar with test-driven development, or TDD, but behavior-driven development, or BDD, […]
Behavior Driven Development (BDD) has been around as a practice for some time now, ever since it was introduced by Dan North back in 2006 (at which point it had already been evolving for a couple of years). Tools to support the BDD process, such as Cucumber, SpecFlow and JBehave, have existed for just as […]
In a world where teams are required to deliver software faster and faster, it’s become increasingly difficult to ensure that the applications we release are of the highest quality. Whether your team is practicing Waterfall, Agile, or DevOps, there’s at least one common approach that can help make sure your organization is delivering quality software. […]
Agile development has transformed the software industry by delivering better products faster, but there are still many areas for improvement. Behavior-driven development, or BDD, is designed to close some of these gaps by enhancing communication between business and technical teams. By streamlining communication and eliminating misunderstandings, BDD enables developers to improve product quality and move […]
Software development consists of writing tests, code, and documentation. While test-driven development (TDD) has become very popular, many development teams still struggle with creating the right amount of documentation. Writing too much documentation is wasteful, but some documentation is necessary to keep everyone on the same page. In this article, we will look at some […]
Earlier this week my friends in marketing sent me a tweet-debate they stumbled across centered around the merits of unit test code coverage as a metric for quality. The original tweet presented the opinion that unit test code coverage – a metric that measures what percentage of your code base is covered by unit tests […]
Internet of Things. Agile. DevOps. Artificial intelligence. Microservices. Blockchain. GraphQL. Big data. These buzzwords have been thrown around for years. Their adoption has often lagged due to the fact that, in many cases, they require a widespread organizational change or technology overhaul. Another concept – or perhaps, you might think of it as a buzzword […]
Software development is all about translating business requirements into working software. Business analysts come up with a set of requirements that is communicated to development teams via user stories and acceptance tests describing how the user interface should function. The problem is that it’s difficult to automate user stories and acceptance tests. That is, there’s […]
What’s the only thing scarier than zombies? If you ask most developers, it’s keeping up-to-date documentation. If you ask us, we’d say a lack of documentation is much more terrifying. While you might not agree either is actually more frightening than the living dead, there is something to say about how unsettling it is when […]