ssi1111

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by ssi1111 10y ago
Fake agile does not work. Large enterprises come with all their problems in processes, tools, skills, etc. They hear this new buzz word and latch on to it. They take this new thing to their teams and ask them to implement it. And all this w
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by ssi1111 11y ago
Either this was poorly written or the author just doesn't get it. Developers shouldn't do TDD or 100% code coverage because they want to build a perfect system; developers should do TDD because they understand that they can never
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by ssi1111 13y ago
So when you have 2 features/bug fixes in the same area, built in 2 different branches and deployed to isolated dev/test environments... the first time you might find out that they dont work well with each other is in Staging? Why
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by ssi1111 13y ago
Commit to 1 dirty branch; assume it is broken and let tests prove otherwise. When tests pass, you know it is a working branch, tag and release. I skipped a few steps for simplicity. Here, merges are an exception, not the rule. This workflow
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by ssi1111 13y ago
How do you test the fixes? Which branch gets deployed to the test environment?
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by ssi1111 13y ago
I agree. I would pick 1 dirty branch with continuous builds and tests any time over several branches. I have worked with several branches too and it is always messy, lots of confusion and too many overheads (including the Release Manager gu
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by ssi1111 13y ago
Towards the end, he says "...but I do enjoy the Gherkin syntax. Not for testing, but for gathering feature requirements..." and this is where cucumber or fit or FitNesse is useful - you gather requirements, then because these req
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by ssi1111 14y ago
I think you should have a form where users can try out your address checks. This is just so devs can quickly make sure if you know the difference between good and a bad address before they try out the api.
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by ssi1111 14y ago
I am a big fan of TDD. I read this post to see if I can get any reasonable arguments against TDD, so I can be better prepared next time I am trying to sell TDD. #10 - 'no clients' and #8 - 'short project' kinda make sense to not practice
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by ssi1111 14y ago
The challenge is going to be to find 2 people that use blackberry...:) j/k...
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by ssi1111 14y ago
If Groupon is a failure, I'd like to have several of those...
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by ssi1111 16y ago
Did you try referral marketing (like cj.com)? Did/would that help?