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TDD in Legacy Code - Backlog Refinement
If you don't have clear Acceptance Criteria, you can't practice ATDD. It's more than just development, it all starts with requirements - executable…
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Valentina Jemuović
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CTO's ATDD Roadmap - Sandbox Project
CTOs face regression bugs & slow delivery in Legacy Projects. Solution - Part 1: introduce Acceptance Tests & ATDD across your teams. Create a Sandbox…
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Valentina Jemuović
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5 reasons to build your TDD Sandbox Project
TDD is too hard to apply in Real Life Projects. Here are 5 reasons why you should build your TDD Sandbox Project first, before applying to your Legacy…
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Valentina Jemuović
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TDD in Legacy Code - Maintainable External System Contract Tests
Directly referencing the HTTP Client in our External System Contract Tests? This makes the tests very hard to maintain. That's why we need to use…
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Valentina Jemuović
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External System Contract Tests
External System Contract Tests verify that our System can communicate with External Systems, also providing us assurance that the External System Stubs…
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Valentina Jemuović
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TDD @ Erste Digital - "From 0 tests to TDD" (Nik Sumeiko)
Nik Sumeiko shares his success story - starting with zero tests and reaching TDD at Erste Digital.
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Valentina Jemuović
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TDD in Legacy Code - External System Contract Tests
Acceptance Tests rely on External System Stubs. But how to we know that those Stubs are actually valid? We can only know if we have External System…
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Valentina Jemuović
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TDD @ BBC Sport - "TDD is the reason I'm never stressed" (Paul Hammond)
Paul Hammond shares his story - how he started TDD when he joined BBC a decade ago, and how TDD reduced stress and helped him refactor safely.
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November 2024

TDD in Legacy Code - Maintainable Acceptance Tests
Acceptance Tests might be coupled to External System Stubs, which makes them expensive to read, and fragile when External System interface changes. So…
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Valentina Jemuović
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🎉TDD Bestseller Celebration - 50% off Lifetime
I passed 100+ paid subscribers and became a Substack Bestseller. Time to celebrate! That's why I'll be giving you 50% lifetime for annual subscriptions.
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Valentina Jemuović
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Acceptance Tests
Acceptance Tests verify System behavior in isolation from External Systems, thereby enabling us to test any functional Acceptance Criteria, thus…
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Valentina Jemuović
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Why TDD fails in practice
I found a big problem that remains unsolved in our industry - how to practice TDD in legacy code? I found the solution after many years.
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