Scrum Developers Resources & References

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Agile Architecture aka Emergent Architecture [TOP]

“You don’t need to start with the Login Page” http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2011/06/11/dont-you-have-to-login-first/

Coaching the Agile Architect http://www.leadingagile.com/2014/04/coaching-agile-architect/

Conceptual Architecture http://ruthmalan.com/ByTopic/Architecture/ConceptualArchitecture.htm

Evolutionary Architecture – Neal Ford (a series) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=evolutionary+architecture+emergent+design

Hexagonal Architecture https://softwarecampament.wordpress.com/portsadapters/

Hexagonal Architecture – more on the ideas of using adapters in front of outside code (GUI, 3rd party libraries etc) http://alistair.cockburn.us/Hexagonal+architecture

How the Guardian successfully moved domain to www.theguardian.com https://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2014/feb/18/how-the-guardian-successfully-moved-domain

James Shore on Continuous Design http://www.martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/continuousDesign.pdf [PDF warning!]

Pimp my Architecture – Dan North (Presentation) http://www.infoq.com/presentations/north-pimp-my-architecture

Principles for the Agile Architect http://www.agilearchitect.org/agile/principles.htm

Simplicity, The Way of the Unusual Architect – Dan North (Presentation) http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simplicity-Architect

Software Architecture and Related Concerns http://bredemeyer.com/whatis.htm

Software architecture is failing https://www.alexhudson.com/2017/10/14/software-architecture-failing/

The Role of the Agile Architect http://www.agilearchitect.org/agile/role.htm

When Feature Flags Go Wrong https://www.infoq.com/articles/feature-flags-gone-wrong

Martin Fowler

Enterprise Architecture Patterns http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/

Feature Toggles http://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html

Is Design Dead? http://martinfowler.com/articles/designDead.html

Sample Architecture http://martinfowler.com/articles/orderPad/

Software Design Guide http://martinfowler.com/design.html

The Architecture of the Morrison’s OrderPad https://martinfowler.com/articles/orderPad/

Who Needs An Architect? https://martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/whoNeedsArchitect.pdf [PDF warning!]

Agile Architecture aka Emergent Architecture Books

Building Evolutionary Architectures - Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua

Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development - James O. Coplien, Gertrud Bjørnvig [AMAZON]

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler [AMAZON]

Bugs [TOP]

0 Bugs Policy https://www.infoq.com/articles/0-bugs-policy

Bug Prediction Tool from Google http://google-engtools.blogspot.ca/2011/12/bug-prediction-at-google.html

Bug statistics are a waste of time https://gojko.net/2011/05/17/bug-statistics-are-a-waste-of-time/

Bugs help destroy Companies (aka zero bugs is possible) -Elisabeth Hendrickson http://testobsessed.com/2012/08/bugs-spread-disease/

Collaboration [TOP]

Alternative take on the ‘Driver’ and ‘Navigator’ roles in pair programming https://salfreudenberg.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/an-alternative-take-on-the-driver-and-navigator-roles-in-pair-programming/

An alternative take on the ‘Driver’ and ‘Navigator’ roles in pair programming https://salfreudenberg.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/an-alternative-take-on-the-driver-and-navigator-roles-in-pair-programming/

Arlo Belshi – On Setting Up A Successful Pairing Environment http://arlobelshee.com/is-pair-programming-for-me/

Code Reviews Bad – Pair Programming Good http://www.solutionsiq.com/code-reviews-bad-pair-programming-good-or-dont-throw-it-over-the-wall-collaborate/

Considerate Pair Programming – Part 1 http://sedano.org/toddsedano/2017/10/24/considerate-pair-programming.html

Considerate Pair Programming – Part 2 http://sedano.org/toddsedano/2017/10/23/considerate-pair-programming.html

Considerate Pair Programming – Part 3 http://sedano.org/toddsedano/2017/10/22/considerate-pair-programming.html

Creating the Motivation to Pair Program http://aaron.sanders.name/creating-the-motivation-to-pair-program/

Cross Functional Pair Programming http://www.solutionsiq.com/experience-design-and-cross-functional-pairing/?ref=dzone

Evaluating performances of pair designing in industry http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.101.9212&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Myths of Collective Code Ownership https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2008/05/mythbusting-c.html#.Vaex3vlViko

Pair Programming Chapter from Shore and Warden’s book – Agile Development http://www.jamesshore.com/Agile-Book/pair_programming.html

Pair Programming Considered Extremely Beneficial http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/17/pair-programming-considered-extremely-beneficial/

Pair Programming Costs and Benefits http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/XPSardinia.PDF

Pair programming improves software quality in industrial companies http://sci.aalto.fi/en/current/current_archive/news/2011-12-19-003/

Pair Programming Lessons from Improv http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2014/12/31/pair-programming-lessons-from-improv/

PairHero – an Eclipse Pluigin that encourages Pairing http://www.happyprog.com/pairhero/

Pairing, Competence, and Recognition http://agileotter.blogspot.ca/2011/01/pairing-competence-and-recognition.html

So what do the Driver and Navigator really do? https://salfreudenberg.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/so-what-do-the-driver-and-navigator-really-do/

The ‘Needs’ Aspect of Pair-Programming https://medium.com/learning-teaching-pairing/the-needs-aspect-of-pair-programming-702777fc1ec1

Two Years of Pair Programming http://www.cholick.com/entry/show/281

Undesirable pair programming behaviours https://salfreudenberg.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/undesirable-pair-programming-behaviours-the-thrasher-and-the-divider/

Undesirable pair programming behaviours – The Thrasher and The Divider https://salfreudenberg.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/undesirable-pair-programming-behaviours-the-thrasher-and-the-divider/

What it’s Like to Pair for a Year https://medium.com/built-to-adapt/what-its-like-to-pair-for-a-year-86d048494324#.vljybna4o

Mob Programming

Effective Mob Programming Patterns https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/02/effective-mob-programming

Five roles in a healthy mob https://cucumber.io/blog/2017/10/16/five-roles-in-a-healthy-mob

Here’s the science behind mob programming https://medium.com/comparethemarket/you-asked-me-to-prove-mob-programming-works-heres-the-proof-70eb6a1d0279

I did mob programming every day for 5 months https://medium.com/comparethemarket/i-did-mob-programming-every-day-for-5-months-heres-what-i-learnt-b586fb8b67c

Mob Programming – A Whole Team Approach by Woody Zuill https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/experience-reports/mob-programming-agile2014/

Collaboration Books

Pair Programming: A book on problem solving -

Continuous Delivery and Deployment [TOP]

Benefits of Continuous Testing http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/04/benefits-continuous-testing

Continuous Delivery and the Perils of Feature Branching http://continuousdelivery.com/2011/07/on-dvcs-continuous-integration-and-feature-branches/

Continuous Delivery Coding Patterns: Latent-to-Live Code & Forward Compatible Interim Versions https://www.infoq.com/articles/continuous-delivery-coding-patterns

Continuous Delivery: The Value Proposition – Jez Humble https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1641923

Continuous Deployment at Instagram https://engineering.instagram.com/continuous-deployment-at-instagram-1e18548f01d1#.cssk7lhxw

Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications – Eric Ries http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/12/continuous-deployment-for-mission.html

Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps by Eric Ries http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/continuous-deployment-5-eas.html

How Netflix Deploys Code http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/06/netflix

What are the technical practices of a Lean Startup? http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-technical-practices-of-a-Lean-Startup

Example from Real World

Amazon deploys every 11.6 seconds http://joshuaseiden.com/blog/2013/12/amazon-deploys-to-production-every-11-6-seconds/

Etsy’s Story of Continuous Delivery and Deployment http://www.slideshare.net/beamrider9/continuous-deployment-at-etsy-a-tale-of-two-approaches

Feature Flags at Flickr http://code.flickr.net/2009/12/02/flipping-out/

Quantum of Deployment https://codeascraft.com/2010/05/20/quantum-of-deployment/

Quora – deploys up to 50+ times a day http://engineering.quora.com/Continuous-Deployment-at-Quora#_=_

The Software Revolution Behind LinkedIn’s Gushing Profits http://www.wired.com/2013/04/linkedin-software-revolution/

Wealthfront deploys up to 50 times a day http://eng.wealthfront.com/2011/02/continuous-deployment-for-data-not-just.html

Continuous Delivery and Deployment Books

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation - Jez Humble, David Farley [AMAZON]

Continuous Integration and Setting Up Builds [TOP]

It’s Not CI, It’s Just CI Theatre https://www.gocd.org/2017/05/16/its-not-CI-its-CI-theatre/

Keep your code spotless with Gradle https://github.com/diffplug/spotless

Key Principles for Reducing Continuous Integration Build Time http://blogs.agilefaqs.com/2014/10/03/key-principles-for-reducing-continuous-integration-build-time/

Why Distributed CI is the Logical Next Step http://qualityswdev.com/2010/12/15/why-distributed-ci-is-the-logical-next-step/

.NET

MSBuild and Hudson (3 part series) – Part 1 http://www.leniel.net/2011/05/svn-hudson-msbuild-local-rev-control.html#sthash.yACTcz8h.dpbs

MSBuild and Hudson (3 part series) – Part 2 http://www.leniel.net/2011/07/svn-hudson-job-continuous-integration.html#sthash.jiZlDbr5.dpbs

MSBuild and Hudson (3 part series) – Part 3 http://www.leniel.net/2011/10/svn-hudson-msbuild-building-code-commit.html#sthash.TtKAqCuA.dpbs

MSBuild and Jenkins – Part 1 http://www.infoq.com/articles/MSBuild-1

MSBuild and Jenkins – Part 2 http://www.infoq.com/articles/MSBuild-2

MSBuild Tutorial http://thomasardal.com/msbuild-tutorial/

Shorter MSBuild Tutorial https://schneide.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/msbuild-basics/

Database Change Tools [TOP]

Agile Database Tools and Scripts http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tools.html

CFengine – Open Source Configuration Management System http://cfengine.com/

Database Change Management Best Practices http://www.innovartis.co.uk/Automated_Database_Change_Management_Whitepaper.htm

LiquidBase – Source Control and Refactoring for Databases http://www.liquibase.org/

Perspectives in Building SOLID Databases http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.ca/2013/01/building-solid-databases-openclosed.html?m=1

Defects and Cause [TOP]

Something’s Wrong in the Surface Fleet and We Aren’t Talking About It https://warontherocks.com/2017/11/somethings-wrong-surface-fleet-arent-talking/

Design Patterns [TOP]

Design Patterns Books

Head First Design Patterns - Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra

DevOps [TOP]

A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps https://leanpub.com/testingindevops

There’s No Such Thing as a “Devops Team” https://continuousdelivery.com/2012/10/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-devops-team/

What Is DevOps? https://theagileadmin.com/what-is-devops/

Engineering Practices at Well Known Companies [TOP]

Continuous Integration at Google http://eclipsecon.org/2013/sites/eclipsecon.org.2013/files/2013-03-24%20Continuous%20Integration%20at%20Google%20Scale.pdf [PDF warning!]

EricGu – MS – getting to Zero bugs http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2015/02/06/no-bugs-journey-episode-1-inventory.aspx

Ford draws on Pivotal to reshape developer culture http://www.cio.com/article/3016017/developer/ford-draws-on-pivotal-to-reshape-developer-culture.html

Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It’s All in One Place https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand-one-place/

How does Etsy manage development and operations? https://codeascraft.com/2011/02/04/how-does-etsy-manage-development-and-operations/

Rapid Release at Massive Scale https://code.facebook.com/posts/270314900139291/rapid-release-at-massive-scale/

What kind of automated testing does Facebook do? http://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-automated-testing-does-Facebook-do

Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a Net http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/yahoos-engineers-move-to-coding-without-a-net

Zero Bugs at Microsoft

Inventory http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2015/02/06/no-bugs-journey-episode-1-inventory.aspx

It’s a matter of values http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2015/02/21/no-bugs-journey-episode-2-it-s-a-matter-of-values.aspx

What Kind of Bug is This? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericgu/archive/2015/04/01/the-no-bugs-journey-part-3-what-kind-of-bug-is-this.aspx

Approval Tests

Approval Tests http://approvaltests.com/

Approval Tests with Llewellyn Falco http://www.hanselminutes.com/360/approval-tests-with-llewellyn-falco

Using ApprovalTests in .Net 17 Wpf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc_ty03lZ9U

Living Well with Legacy Code Books

Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software - David Scott Bernstein [AMAZON]

The Mikado Method - Daniel Brolund, Ola Ellnestam [AMAZON]

Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael Feathers [AMAZON]

Mocks [TOP]

Argument about better use of Mocks https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2014/test-isolation-is-about-avoiding-mocks

Mocks https://cumulative-hypotheses.org/2015/11/03/mocks/

Pictures showing the different types of Mocks we create http://www.industriallogic.com/blog/mock-objects-pictures/

DotNet

FakeItEasy https://github.com/FakeItEasy/FakeItEasy

Moq https://github.com/Moq/moq4

NMock3 http://nmock3.codeplex.com/

NSubstitute http://nsubstitute.github.io/

Rhino Mocks http://hibernatingrhinos.com/oss/rhino-mocks

Java

Comparison between Mockito and JMockit http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4105592/comparison-between-mockito-vs-jmockit-why-is-mockito-voted-better-than-jmockit

JMockit http://jmockit.org/

MockIto http://mockito.org/

What’s the best mock framework for Java? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22697/whats-the-best-mock-framework-for-java

Practice Tools [TOP]

Code Kata – One Developer’s Journey http://codekata.com/

Code Katas (practice problems) http://www.codekatas.org/

Coding Dojos http://codingdojo.org/

Online Coding Dojo for the Team http://cyber-dojo.org/dojo/index/EBDD22872D

Scrum By Example: The Team Learn How to Learn https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2012/03/scrummaster-talesthe-team-learn-how-to-learn.html#.VcPh_vlViko

TDD Community of Practice – Software Problem Wiki https://sites.google.com/site/tddproblems/

TDD Randori Session https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2008/10/tdd-randori-session.html

TDD Randori Workshop https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2008/10/tdd-randori-workshop.html

The Coding Dojo Handbook https://leanpub.com/codingdojohandbook

Quality [TOP]

Tradable Quality Hypothesis http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TradableQualityHypothesis.html

Refactoring [TOP]

A Guide to Naming Variables https://a-nickels-worth.blogspot.ca/2016/04/a-guide-to-naming-variables.html

Embracing the Red Bar: Safely Refactoring Tests http://corgibytes.com/blog/2016/09/20/refactoring-against-the-red-bar/

The Core 6 Refactorings http://arlobelshee.com/the-core-6-refactorings/

Workflows of Refactoring http://martinfowler.com/articles/workflowsOfRefactoring/

Refactoring Books

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts [AMAZON]

Refactoring to Patterns - Joshua Kerievsky [AMAZON]

Software Craftsmanship [TOP]

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests http://hanalee.info/blog/growing-object-oriented-software-guided-by-tests.html

Software Craftsmanship Books

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests - Steve Freeman [AMAZON]

Source Control Branch Strategies and Their Side Effects [TOP]

Branch by Abstraction for dealing with the few complexities that crop up with working off of Trunk http://martinfowler.com/bliki/BranchByAbstraction.html

Branching by an abstraction in the trunk instead of branching via Source Control http://paulhammant.com/blog/branch_by_abstraction.html

Continuous Integration and Feature Branching http://www.davefarley.net/?p=247

Feature Branching in Source Control and Merge Hell http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureBranch.html

Long Running Branches Considered Harmful https://blog.newrelic.com/2012/11/14/long-running-branches-considered-harmful/

Perceived Barriers to Trunk Based Development http://www.davefarley.net/?p=269

Scaling Trunk Based Development http://paulhammant.com/2013/04/09/scaling-trunk-based-development/

Trunk Based Development a summary http://paulhammant.com/2013/04/05/what-is-trunk-based-development/

Trunk Based Development as a Cornerstone for Continuous Delivery https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/02/agile-transformation-kpn-itv

Example from Real World

Google’s vs Facebook’s Trunk Based Development http://paulhammant.com/2014/01/08/googles-vs-facebooks-trunk-based-development/

Trunk Based Development for Microsoft Office http://paulhammant.com/2014/04/03/microsofts-trunk-based-development/

Static Analysis Tools [TOP]

.NET FxCop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FxCop

C/C++ http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0245/

Codekvast – Finds truly dead code in Java and other JVM languages http://codekvast.crisp.se/

Error Prone http://errorprone.info/

Findbugs – Hueristic Analysis of Java http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

JsHint http://jshint.com/

JsLint http://www.jslint.com/

NDepend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDepend

PMD supports: Java, JavaScript, PLSQL, Apache Velocity, XML, XSL https://pmd.github.io/

Swarming [TOP]

The Kanban Story: Swarming http://brodzinski.com/2010/05/kanban-swarming.html

Technical Debt [TOP]

Jon Kern (Agile Manifesto Signatory) – Got Technical Debt? http://technicaldebt.com/got-technical-debt/

Scrum By Example: Stop Digging New Holes https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2012/02/scrummaster-talesstop-digging-new-holes.html#.ValECPlViko

Sonar – a tool for gaining a first order understanding of code quality vs mess http://www.sonarsource.com/

Technical Debt – A Summary – Martin Fowler http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html

Technical Debt for Managers http://www.infoq.com/articles/technical-debt-levison

Technical Debt Initiative https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/technical-debt/

Technical Debt: Adding Math to the Metaphor http://reinertsenassociates.com/technical-debt-adding-math-metaphor/

Technical Wealth with Declan Wheelan http://legacycoderocks.libsyn.com/technical-wealth-with-declan-wheelan

The Agile Alliance Debt Analysis Model https://www.agilealliance.org/the-agile-alliance-debt-analysis-model/

The Human Cost of Tech Debt http://www.daedtech.com/human-cost-tech-debt/

Toward a Galvanizing Definition of Technical Debt https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/toward-a-galvanizing-definition-of-technical-debt

Technical Debt Books

Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change - Chris Sterling [AMAZON]

Testing [TOP]

Agile Alliance Functional Test Tools https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CTo4J8hUkl0hNUuYdFXG4NwDfN9cMlIM_06P0fe9kKQ/edit?hl=en&pli=1#gid=1

Agile Test Tools – Spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CTo4J8hUkl0hNUuYdFXG4NwDfN9cMlIM_06P0fe9kKQ/edit?hl=en&pli=1#gid=1

BugsZero @ Agile Open Northwest 2016 http://jbazuzicode.blogspot.ca/2016/02/bugszero-agile-open-northwest-2016.html

Design for Testability http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2012/05/16/design-for-testability/

Do You Need a Test Column?…. Let’s Talk https://janetgregory.ca/do-you-need-a-test-column-lets-talk/

Exploratory Testing Using Personas http://www.kohl.ca/2005/exploratory-testing-using-personas/

How Agile Has Changed Test Management http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-changed-test-management

Humans vs Computers – strange examples of names, addresses and more https://atlas.mindmup.com/neuri/humans_vs_computers_ideas/index.html

It’s Ok to Have a Test Column on Your Board https://www.rallydev.com/blog/agile/it-s-ok-have-test-column-your-board

Ten Skills that are Probably More Important for Testers than Tools and Test Automation http://testingrants.blogspot.com/2018/06/10-minute-rant-2-ten-skills-that-are.html

Test Planning Cheat Sheet http://agiletester.ca/test-planning-cheat-sheet/

Testing is a Team Problem http://janetgregory.ca/testing-is-a-team-problem/

The Rise of Test Impact Analysis https://martinfowler.com/articles/rise-test-impact-analysis.html

Using MindMaps to help testing process http://lisacrispin.com/2012/05/05/weekend-testing-americas-testing-wikimedia/

Automation

100,000 e2e selenium tests? Sounds like a nightmare! https://watirmelon.blog/2014/05/14/100000-e2e-selenium-tests-sounds-like-a-nightmare/

Agile Testing — The Agile Test Automation Pyramid http://www.velocitypartners.net/blog/2014/01/28/agile-testing-the-agile-test-automation-pyramid/

Buildbot and Intermittent Tests https://engineering.imvu.com/2011/01/19/buildbot-and-intermittent-tests/

Chaos Engineering Upgraded http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/chaos-engineering-upgraded.html

Common Mistakes in Test Automation http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/introducing-software-testing-cupcake-anti-pattern

Functional Testing Tools List (Spreadsheet) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CTo4J8hUkl0hNUuYdFXG4NwDfN9cMlIM_06P0fe9kKQ/edit?hl=en&pli=1#gid=1

GUI Automation Patterns http://www.infoq.com/articles/gui-automation-patterns

How Netflix is improving its fault tolerance http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/09/introducing-chaos-engineering.html

How we break things at Twitter: failure testing https://blog.twitter.com/2015/how-we-break-things-at-twitter-failure-testing

Just Say No to More End-to-End Tests http://googletesting.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/just-say-no-to-more-end-to-end-tests.html

Layers of Test Automation http://qa-matters.com/2014/12/28/layers-of-test-automation/

Lisa Crispin’s summary of effective test automation http://lisacrispin.com/downloads/AgileTDAutomation.pdf [PDF warning!]

Managing Successful Test Automation http://www.testthisblog.com/2013/04/managing-successful-test-automation.html

Page Object Pattern for Testing GUI applications (not just webapps) http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PageObject.html

Page Objects Refactored – SOLID steps to the Screenplay/Journey Pattern https://ideas.riverglide.com/page-objects-refactored-12ec3541990

Principles of Chaos Engineering http://www.principlesofchaos.org/

Robot Framework – The Unsung Hero Of Test Automation http://blog.xebia.com/robot-framework-the-unsung-hero-of-test-automation/

The Practical Test Pyramid https://martinfowler.com/articles/practical-test-pyramid.html

White – framework for automating rich client applications based on Win32, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight and SWT (Java) platforms https://github.com/TestStack/White

Testing Books

More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team - Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin [AMAZON]

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams - Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory [AMAZON]

Tools [TOP]

Agile Test Tools – Spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CTo4J8hUkl0hNUuYdFXG4NwDfN9cMlIM_06P0fe9kKQ/edit?hl=en&pli=1#gid=1

Unit Testing [TOP]

Choosing the right JavaScript testing tool https://gojko.net/2018/02/25/javascript-testing-tools.html

Code from Practical Unit Testing with JUnit and Mockito https://github.com/tomekkaczanowski/junit-put-exercises

Database UnitTesting Framework for SQL Server http://tsqlt.org/

Improving On assertEquals with JUnit and Hamcrest http://marxsoftware.blogspot.ca/2012/04/improving-on-assertequals-with-junit.html

Infinitest http://infinitest.github.io/

JUnit’s Built-in Hamcrest Core Matcher Support JUnit's Built-in Hamcrest Core Matcher Support

Matchers http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-unit-testing/matchers.html

Multiple Asserts Are OK https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/multiple-asserts-are-ok/

Practical Unit Testing http://practicalunittesting.com/

Real world mutation testing http://pitest.org/

Test Driven Databases http://tsqlt.org/

Unit Testing Books

Practical Unit Testing with JUnit and Mockito - Tomek Kaczanowski [AMAZON]

Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit - Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas [AMAZON]

Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit - Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas [AMAZON]

xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code - Gerard Meszaros [AMAZON]

The Art of Unit Testing: with Examples in .NET - Roy Osherove [AMAZON]

Unit Testing Methods [TOP]

ATDD vs BDD vs Specification by Example (many flavours of the same thing) https://janetgregory.ca/atdd-vs-bdd-vs-specification-by-example-vs/

Specification by Example

Specification By Example Summary on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_by_example

Thoughtworks – Specification by Example https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/specification-example

Wikipedia on Specification By Example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_by_example

Specification by Example Books

Specification by Example - Gojko Adzic

Test Driven Development

A Visual Approach to Test-Driven Agile https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/member-articles/1200

Destroy all Software https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts

Failing to Falsify http://logosity.net/notes.html#2017.02

How TDD Can Work https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2014/tdd-straw-men-and-rhetoric

James Shore Let’s Play TDD – 200 webcasts of doing TDD on a real application http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Lets-Play

Keith Braithwaite – Measuring the effects of TDD http://www.infoq.com/presentations/measure-for-measure

Keith Braithwaite – TDD as if you meant it http://www.infoq.com/presentations/TDD-as-if-You-Meant-It

Looking at TDD: An Academic Survey https://www.tedmyoung.com/looking-at-tdd-an-academic-survey/

Micheal Feathers “The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design” https://vimeo.com/15007792

Styles of Naming tests http://blog.orfjackal.net/2010/02/three-styles-of-naming-tests.html

TDD vs BDD http://blog.mattwynne.net/2012/11/20/tdd-vs-bdd/

Tell Don’t Ask http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TellDontAsk.html

Test Driving Unity a 3D game development tool with too much cohesion https://minnenratta.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/test-driving-a-unity-game/

Test-Driven Development as Pragmatic Deliberate Practice http://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/test-driven-development-as-pragmatic-deliberate-practice

The payback of pairing with TDD http://anarchycreek.com/2009/05/26/how-tdd-and-pairing-increase-production/

The ROI of Test-Driven Development http://powersoftwo.agileinstitute.com/2012/08/the-roi-of-test-driven-development.html

We’re in this for the Money http://geepawhill.org/were-in-this-for-the-money/

Test Driven Development Books

Test Driven: TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers - Lasse Koskela [AMAZON]

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# - Robert C. Martin [AMAZON]

An excellent book on creating clean code that uses as its basis TDD

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship - Robert C. Martin [AMAZON]

Test Driven Development for Embedded C - James W. Grenning [AMAZON]

Test Driven Development: By Example - Kent Beck [AMAZON]

Behaviour-Driven Development

A case study for BDD in improving throughput and collaboration https://cucumber.io/blog/2017/04/10/improving-throughput-and-collaboration

Aslak’s view of BDD https://cucumber.io/blog/2015/03/27/aslaks-view-of-bdd

BDD and User Story Specification: Examples https://www.targetprocess.com/blog/bdd-and-user-story-specification-examples/

BDD in a Nutshell http://agilecoach.typepad.com/agile-coaching/2012/03/bdd-in-a-nutshell.html

BDD in the Finance Sector https://cucumber.io/blog/2015/07/01/bdd-in-the-financial-sector

BDD Tool Cucumber is 10 Years Old: Q&A with its Founder https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/04/cucumber-bdd-ten-years

BDDfy – GitHub https://github.com/TestStack/TestStack.BDDfy

Behaviour Driven Links Page http://lizkeogh.com/behaviour-driven-development/

Canopy – F# frictional webapp testing – goal make UI testing simple http://lefthandedgoat.github.io/canopy/

Cucumber https://cucumber.io/

Cucumber anti-patterns (part one) https://cucumber.io/blog/2016/07/01/cucumber-antipatterns-part-one

Cucumber anti-patterns (part two) https://cucumber.io/blog/2016/08/31/cucumber-anti-patterns-part-two

PHP BDD Framework https://github.com/Behat/Behat

Rules vs Examples (BDDX London 2014) https://speakerdeck.com/mattwynne/rules-vs-examples-bddx-london-2014

Stories, Rules and Examples – BDDX 2014 London https://speakerdeck.com/mattwynne/rules-vs-examples-bddx-london-2014

The beginner’s guide to BDD https://inviqa.com/blog/bdd-guide

Three top tips for using Given When Then. https://theitriskmanager.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/three-top-tips-for-using-given-when-then/

Using Keywords to Support Behavior-Driven Development https://www.techwell.com/techwell-insights/2015/04/using-keywords-support-behavior-driven-development

Who writes the Cucumber scenarios? https://medium.com/@mattwynne/who-writes-the-cucumber-scenarios-6ca5f390c2fa

Behaviour-Driven Development Books

The Cucumber for Java Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers - Seb Rose, Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy [AMAZON]

BDD in Action: Behavior-driven development for the whole software lifecycle - John Ferguson Smart [AMAZON]

ATDD by Example: A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development - Markus Gärtner

Acceptance Test-Driven Development

Acceptance Test Driven – Concepts and Demo (Video) https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/ALM-Summit/ALM-Summit-3/Implementing-ATDD-and-Specification-By-Example

Acceptance Test Driven Development from the Trenches http://www.infoq.com/articles/atdd-from-the-trenches

FitNesse http://fitnesse.org/

Acceptance Test-Driven Development Books

ATDD by Example: A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development - Markus Gärtner [AMAZON]

Specification by Example - Tools

SpecFlow http://www.specflow.org/

Tutorials

Esko Luontola – Tutorial Test Driven Tetris https://github.com/orfjackal/tdd-tetris-tutorial

Other practice problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_rental_problem

Story of Learning TDD and Pairing: Dining at the TDD Buffet http://codetojoy.blogspot.ca/2007/02/im-believer.html

Sustainable TDD http://www.sustainabletdd.com/

Uncle Bob on Choosing What to Test http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2013/05/27/TheTransformationPriorityPremise.html

Concepts

Acceptance Test Driven Development – Summary with Videos http://www.planetgeek.ch/2012/06/12/acceptance-test-driven-development/

BDD in a Nutshell http://agilecoach.typepad.com/agile-coaching/2012/03/bdd-in-a-nutshell.html

Demo of BDD Style Development – Corey Haines doing a Roman Numerals Kata http://blog.coreyhaines.com/2012/12/roman-numerals-kata-with-commentary.html

Getting Started with ATDD: Overcoming the Biggest Mistakes Right from the Start http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1905549

Tests Need to be Written so They Can Be Read by Normal People – Steve Freement (Video) https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/5009-given-when-then-considered-harmful

The world’s most misunderstood collaboration tool https://cucumber.io/blog/2014/03/03/the-worlds-most-misunderstood-collaboration-tool

Tools

An Introduction to BDD Test Automation with Serenity and Cucumber-JVM http://thucydides.info/docs/articles/an-introduction-to-serenity-bdd-with-cucumber.html

BDD Tool Cucumber is 10 Years Old: Q&A with its Founder https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/04/cucumber-bdd-ten-years

BDDfy – GitHub https://github.com/TestStack/TestStack.BDDfy

BDDify http://bddfy.teststack.net/

Concordion supports: Java, .NET and Python (and more) http://concordion.org/

Cucumber https://cucumber.io/

Cucumber JVM https://cucumber.io/

Fitnesse and Tutorials http://schuchert.wikispaces.com/FitNesse.Tutorials

FitNesse Tutorials Start https://schuchert.wikispaces.com/FitNesse.Tutorials.0

Getting Started with FitNesse – Reference card from DZone (reg required) https://dzone.com/refcardz/getting-started-fitnesse

Gherkin Salad – another Cucumber like approach for Java https://github.com/daveayan/gherkinsalad/wiki/quick-start

JNario http://www.sebastianbenz.de/announcing-our-first-jnario-release

PHP BDD Framework https://github.com/Behat/Behat

Robot Framework – Demo Application https://code.google.com/p/atdd-with-robot-framework/

RobotFramework – GitHub https://github.com/robotframework/robotframework

RobotFramework example with Selenium https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2012/04/robot-framework-tutorial-a-complete-example/

RobotFramework has solid Java Integration https://code.google.com/p/robotframework/wiki/JavaIntegration

Serenity – using BDD for documentation http://serenity-bdd.info/#/

Spock https://github.com/spockframework/spock

Spock Basics https://code.google.com/p/spock/wiki/SpockBasics