Introducing BDD - Dan North & Associates Limited
Sep 20, 2006 · I had a problem. While using and teaching agile practices like test-driven development (TDD) on projects in different environments, I kept coming across the same confusion and misunderstandings. Programmers wanted to know where to start, what to test and what not to test, how much to test in one go, what to call their tests, and how to understand …
About - Dan North & Associates Limited
Dan North & Associates Limited, or DNA, is Daniel Terhorst-North’s consulting company. It enables him to advise and consult with clients as an independent voice, while allowing him to partner with other specialists and trusted advisers to provide a comprehensive consulting service.
Dan North & Associates Limited
Welcome to DNA What do you do? We help your organization go faster. What do you mean by faster? Imagine: A product manager wakes up with a great idea. He tells his manager. She sees its commercial value and works with the product manager to put a proposal together. The proposal goes into IT. If you’re lucky you might have business case sign-off within a few …
Article: Introducing Behaviour-Driven Development - Dan North ...
Oct 20, 2006 · At the beginning of this year I wrote a feature article for Better Software magazine, which was published as “Behavior Modification” back in March. The article is now available on my site. It gives an overview of behaviour-driven development, from its origins as a coaching aid for TDD through to its current form as a proven, comprehensive development approach.
Books - Dan North & Associates Limited
The RSpec Book ¶Published by the legendary Pragmatic Press, the RSpec book is the first end-to-end treatment of BDD. Focusing on the technical aspects of BDD using Ruby, it introduces the reader to BDD tools RSpec and Cucumber, through a fully-worked example. From the Pragmatic Press site: Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) gives you the best of Test Driven …
CUPID—for joyful coding - Dan North & Associates Limited
Feb 10, 2022 · Unix philosophy ¶. Unix and I are about the same age; we both started in 1969, and Unix has become the most prevalent OS on the planet. During the 1990s, every serious computer hardware manufacturer had its own Unix, until the key open source variants, Linux and FreeBSD, became ubiquitous.
What's in a Story? - Dan North & Associates Limited
Feb 11, 2007 · Telling the story ¶. A story should be the product of a conversation involving several people. A business analyst talks to a business stakeholder 1 about the feature or requirement, and helps them to frame it as a story narrative. Then a tester helps define the scope of the story—in the form of acceptance criteria—by determining which scenarios matter and …
Software Faster: from months to minutes - Dan North
Great software professionals build better software faster. Agile methods, continuous delivery and software craftsmanship helped speed up delivery from years to months or even weeks, but then what? Some teams are able to deliver software at a speed of change like you have never seen before, delivering quality software in days or even hours, again and again. So what is keeping …
The Worst Programmer I Know - Dan North & Associates Limited
Sep 2, 2023 · Dan North & Associates Limited. Menu. Blog; Featured; Talks; Books; Courses; Tags; The Worst Programmer I Know. 2 Sep 2023. 4 mins Productivity, Metrics. The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him ...
Talks - Dan North & Associates Limited
Here are some of the topics I’ve been talking about over the last few years, arranged into themes. I’ve also provided links to slides where I have them. All content is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse anything but please mention me) unless stated otherwise on the sites hosting the content. Programming and Architecture ¶Microservices: Software that Fits ...