Tag: TDD
2024: The Year of Testing
Now that AI has made advanced automation a fact, it is time to consider implementing the level of testing we always knew we should have ...
How Test-Driven Methodologies Reduce CI/CD Lead Time
Modern development environments, in which rapid continuous delivery is facilitated by automated continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines, require thorough and automated testing in development prior to integration. This article explains how test-driven ...
Faster and Better Testing?
The whole concept of Agile and DevOps was to iterate development faster and deliver results in a more timely manner. As we learned more about both methodologies, processes and policies were put ...
Pendulums and DevOps
I have long noted the trend of pendulums in IT, particularly in organizations with longer histories. Centralized IT will be achieved, its weaknesses noticed and a movement will begin to decentralize. Decentralized ...
The Benefits of Test-Driven Design
At John Hancock, we use Test-Driven Design (TDD) for all our new initiatives. TDD has three simple steps: Before you write functional code, write a test that proves if the implementation works ...
TDD, Unit Testing and the Mainframe
Unit testing is like exercise: Companies know it’s good for you and you should do it, but given their druthers, they’d rather avoid the effort and just get to the benefit. I ...