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Keeping an Eye on the TDD Ball

Posted October 8, 2009 | Technology |

Like most agile-lean enthusiasts, I regularly attend interest group meetings in my area. When discussing test-driven development (TDD) at some recent gatherings, some folks commented that they have very senior developers within their teams who claim to have become so proficient with TDD that they can actually skip the test-coding step. These developers go straight to implementing the feature because the discipline is so well imprinted in their heads that they can do it all mentally.

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Masa Maeda
Masa K. Maeda is a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. Dr. Maeda, a long-standing Agilist and member of the leading community on high collaboration frameworks, is a pioneer of XSCALE and Kanban for knowledge work. He is also founder of Valueinnova LLC. Dr. Maeda has 26 years’ international experience providing consulting, coaching, and training services to companies from Fortune 500 to startups in four continents. He is a… Read More
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