Archive - Optivem Journal

Why your team is delivering many Regression Bugs?

Why can't developers implement software that works? Why are there so many regression bugs? Manual QA Regression Testing is the culprit.

Apr 16 •

Valentina Jemuović

Regression bugs in production! Slow delivery cycles! Business is complaining, yet IT still can't deliver software that works, on time. Too many bugs…

Apr 11 •

Valentina Jemuović

TDD Chat - Ask me questions

I'm cutting down on Social Media. Substack is now my main channel.

Apr 8 •

Valentina Jemuović

Unit Tests - Live Q&A (Part 1) - Sociable vs Solitary

Watch now | Watch my Live Q&A Session (2nd April) replay where I explain the difference between Sociable and Solitary Unit Tests, and why I prefer…

Apr 4 •

Valentina Jemuović

1:03:06

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Apr 2 •

Valentina Jemuović

Do NOT jump into TDD

You're trying to convince your team to adopt TDD but it's failing. Why?

Apr 1 •

Valentina Jemuović

March 2025

🏆TDD in Legacy Code - Acceptance Tests & External System Contract Tests (Summary)

Acceptance Tests verify System Behavior. How do we separate System Behavior from System Structure using the Four Layer Model?

Mar 28 •

Valentina Jemuović

Mistake #2: Starting with Unit Tests

Starting the shift-left initative by developers writing unit tests (and aiming for 80% code coverage). But no bug reduction! And developers wasting…

Mar 25 •

Valentina Jemuović

BAD Integration Tests

Watch now | Many developers approach integration testing in the wrong way. Watch my Live Q&A Session (19th March) replay where I explain why.

Mar 21 •

Valentina Jemuović

1:00:52

Software: Balancing Learning & Client Work

Should we learn by reading or by doing? How do we balance our learning time with client work?

Mar 18 •

Valentina Jemuović

Hexagonal Architecture - Adapter Testing

How should we test adapters? Should we use "integrated" or "isolated" tests?

Mar 14 •

Valentina Jemuović

How to convince business executives to invest in automated testing?

Many business executives might see automated testing as just an "overhead" cost, that's money wasted, not worthy of investment. How to convince them?

Mar 10 •

Valentina Jemuović

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