It’s true! There are two flavors of BDD being used in companies. Each one controlled by a different role, with conflicting preferences. — TL;DR: The article discusses the difference between two forms of BDD: QA-BDD and TDD-BDD. The author first encountered BDD as a part of a company’s QA team’s process. However, later, the author while teaching DDD and TDD realized that he was converging into the original BDD without even realizing it…

When we double the number of developers in a team, we expect, at most, to double their capacity. But what if we could achieve more than double? — In my previous article, I discussed how not automating can be more costly than it appears: Do Not Automate Is Costlier That It Seems Recently, I came across a story based on a meme talking against automation, but it is missing a crucial point.drpicox.medium.com

Recently, I came across a story based on a meme talking against automation, but it is missing a crucial point. — Okay, I have to confess, I am writing this because I have to vent the frustration I had reading an article against automation. Currently, in our society, we have been taught to look at problems in isolation, it is often a good strategy, but sometimes we lose the big picture…

People often mention the 1x and the 10x programmer when comparing productivity, but, is it possible a negative productivity? First, I need to define what I understand by a negative productivity: given a team, if we can remove one member, and the productivity of the team increases, then, that developer…

Previously we have followed a different path, and we had started to implement from Redux. Now, we will add services. — The current article is a hands-on experience to learn TDD/BDD. It is designed to learn by copy, TDD and all its small steps. The article continues from the previous article: How to TDD with BDD-Gherkin 4.1: Redux First Test Previously, I had shown how to refactor a React application to add Redux, leveraging on TDD. What if we had to build…drpicox.medium.com

Previously, I had shown how to refactor a React application to add Redux, leveraging on TDD. What if we had to build the Redux from scratch? — Development roles often specialize, and also code structures does. Also, often, one of the criticisms against BDD is that it does not allow to test the system parts in an isolated way and fast. But it is not true, and we will show that in this article. Glossary: - TDD (Test…

TDD, although widely misunderstood, and for some a holy war, it is probably one of the best techniques in which to invest time to learn. — These past few weeks, I have been writing a series of articles about how to apply BDD and TDD in developments with a hands-on approach. I want to continue on that, but I felt necessary to do a small pause. TDD (Test Driven Development): discipline consisting in three rules: 1. Write…

The continuation step-by-step tutorial, in which we see how to transform an application gradually to consume from a shared state. — The two lasts stories have been: Testing a React Component, and Fetching From Services in React In which, step by step, we have created a component using TDD to create a component, and make it consume data from an external services. Now we will continue one step further, we will…