Tag Archives: TDD

IASA Israel Meeting – Dror Helper on TDD as an Approach for Software Design

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Hayim Makabee

The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) in Israel organized a special event with the participation of Dror Helper, who talked about the “TDD as an Approach for Software Design”. Title: Designing with Tests Abstract: Unit tests are great, they help a … Continue reading →

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IASA Israel Meeting – Lior Israel on TDD as an Approach for Software Design

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Hayim Makabee

The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) in Israel organized a special event with the participation of Lior Israel, who talked about the “TDD as an Approach for Software Design”. Title: Providing Business Value Through TDD Abstract: Our goal is to provide … Continue reading →

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Antifragile Software Design: Abstraction and the Barbell Strategy

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Hayim Makabee

In his book “Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder”, Nassim Taleb introduces the concept of Antifragility, which is the opposite of Fragility. The main question is how things react to volatility (such as randomness, errors, uncertainty, stressors and time). According … Continue reading →

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Lean Software Development: Before and After the Last Responsible Moment

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Hayim Makabee

The Last Responsible Moment (LRM) is a lean development principle defined as: “A strategy of not making a premature decision but instead delaying commitment and keeping important and irreversible decisions open until the cost of not making a decision becomes … Continue reading →

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On Technical Debt and the Psychology of Risk Taking

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Hayim Makabee

I recently read the following message in a developers’ forum (rephrased here): “I’m facing a dilemma. I must deliver the product by the end of this quarter, but there are still many tests I would like to execute. The product … Continue reading →

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TDD and the Gamification of Testing

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

The Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology was invented to improve the way we test the code we write, with the final goal of increasing the quality of systems being implemented.  The basic idea is that the tests must be written before … Continue reading →

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The Liskov Substitution Principle and Test-Driven Development

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Hayim Makabee

The Substitution Principle, first defined by Barbara Liskov, says that: “Let q(x) be a property provable about objects x of type T. Then q(y) should be true for objects y of type S where S is a subtype of T.” … Continue reading →

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