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Test Doubles - Live Q&A
Watch my Live Q&A - Unit Tests (Part 3) (18th Jun) replay where we answered additional questions regarding Unit Testing
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Why Software Delivery is so slow?
Agile promised us fast delivery. So why are most teams still struggling with delivery speed?
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Modern Test Pyramid - Unit Level
When tests are slow, the feedback to developers is slow, and the cost of rework is high. How can we get faster feedback?
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Unit Tests should NOT mirror code (Michaël Azerhad)
If your unit tests are mirroring your source code structure - one Unit Test per class, then you're doing it wrong.
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Modern Test Pyramid - Component Level
Many software departments face the challenge of inter-team communication & inter-team bugs. When a System Test fails, all the teams have to get together…
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May 2025

Modern Test Pyramid - System Level
Many teams are stuck with slow QA, waiting days/weeks for QA Engineers to test User Stories as well as Regression Testing. The feedback loop is too…
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Junior wasted 3 hours just trying to run the app!
The onboarding nightmare
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TDD in Hexagonal Architecture - Inside out vs Outside in
Watch now | Watch my Unit Tests (Part 2) - Live Q&A Session (30th April) replay where we talked about TDD & Hexagonal Architecture
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April 2025

Tech Lead - "I worked overtime fixing everyone's bugs"
When John worked as a developer on his own, he was responsible for quality - he had complete freedom and could choose to write clean code and run tests.
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Modern Test Pyramid - Illustrated
Modern Test Pyramid
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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.
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