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TDD in Legacy Code - Part 2 - Pipeline Release Stage
Legacy Code often has Manual Releases
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Valentina Jemuović
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Hexagonal Architecture - Driven Adapter Integration Testing
I made mistakes when doing Integration Testing on Driven Adapters that were connecting to External Systems. I'll share the problems and solutions here.
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Valentina Jemuović
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September 2024

TDD in Legacy Code - Part 1 - Pipeline Commit Stage
In Legacy Code, developers might be manually building the system. It would be useless to practice TDD with manual builds. Let's see how to introduce…
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Valentina Jemuović
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TDD in Legacy Code Transformation
Legacy Code is a nightmare to maintain. Escape this by introducing TDD. I created the TDD in the Legacy Code series to help you achieve this…
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Valentina Jemuović
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TDD Cycles Guide
Applying TDD Cycles at the System Level, Component Level, and Unit Level.
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Valentina Jemuović
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Tech Excellence Conference 2024
I remember the stress and pressure of working as a software developer, under pressure to meet deadlines, waiting for QA engineers, and bugs popping up…
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Valentina Jemuović
Unit tests are NOT enough
Unit tests are NOT enough.
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Valentina Jemuović
ATDD and TDD are driven by BEHAVIOR
In ATDD, we are driven by behavioral specifications from the end user perspective.
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Valentina Jemuović
When the Senior Developer goes on vacation
Your developers have been debugging for hours because the person who'd solve it within minutes is on vacation.
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Valentina Jemuović
The microservice testing blame game
When there's 20 microservices and an Acceptance Test fails, the blame game starts.
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Valentina Jemuović
E2E Tests don't protect you against user-facing regression bugs
E2E Testing is limited in testing user-facing system behavior. This is where Acceptance Tests come to the rescue.
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Valentina Jemuović

July 2023

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