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The software development articles directory has just passed the mark of 2000 articles categorized in its database. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is currently a topic of debate in the software development community, as even the value of unit testing is questioned. Here is my selection of 10 interesting TDD articles that should help you get more knowledge on this topic. I have tried to find items that could apply more specifically to different programming languages.

* Improving Application Quality Using Test-Driven Development (TDD)

* Introduction to Test Driven Design (TDD)

* TDD from scratch

* Demystifying Extreme Programming: Test-Driven Programming

* TDD – FDD – BDD… Why not PDD?

* Using JMock in Test Driven Development

* Mocking the Embedded World: Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Design Patterns

* Test-Driven Development in Python

* Apply Test-Driven Development to your Database Projects

* Unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) for Flex and ActionScript 3.0

Linkopedia April 2010

The Editor — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:18:24 +0000

Blog: Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems

Blog: How to Manage Programmers

Blog: Load Testing Relational Databases With JMeter

Blog: Announcing the Tools Section of Our Website

Blog: CMMI by Dilbert

Article: An Introduction to Functional Programming for .NET Developers

Article: Build Web applications with HTML 5

Tool: Allmon – collecting metrics used for performance and availability monitoring

Tool: Deltasql – keeping track of your database schemas.

Video: Agile Tips – Kanban and Support teams

Video: NoSQL: Death to Relational Databases

Video: Getting Started with TDD in Java using Eclipse

Linkopedia March 2010

The Editor — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:35:15 +0000

Web site: Software Engineering Method and Theory

Web site: Rosetta Code

Blog Post: Are tools necessary for acceptance testing, or are they just evil?

Blog Post: New Agile Guidance and CMMI Guidance

Blog Post: 7 truths about Agile and Scrum that people don’t want to hear

Article: Designing Efficient SQL: A Visual Approach

Article: Are you using a toolset in your code review?

Tool: S.P.L.O.T. – Software Product Line Online Tools

Tool: RichNesse – Fitnesse WYSIWIG Editor

Tool: Review Board – Web-based code review tool

Video: Learn About Continuous Integration With Hudson

Video: A Guided Tour of a Whiteboard Culture

Video: Microsoft Visual C# IDE Tips and Tricks

Scrum Open Source Software Directory

The Editor — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:35:14 +0000

OpenSourceScrum.com is a new directory of open source tools for Scrum containing also links to tools reviews.

If you know a missing tool or a good review of an included tool, just let us know.

Linkopedia February 2010

The Editor — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:24:19 +0000

Blog Post: Mocking Mocking and Testing Outcomes.

Blog Post: Testing in the Data Center (Manufacturing No More)

Blog Post: Why Model Driven Software Development isn’t fast enough and how to fix it

Report: Incorporating Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) into Standard Life-Cycle Models

Article: Using Agile Techniques to Pay Back Technical Debt

Article: Compare JavaScript Frameworks

Article: Looking Ahead to ASP.NET 4.0

Tool: BOUML – Open source UML and code generation

Tool: StatSVN is a metrics tool for charting software evolution analyzing of Subversion repositories.

Video: Exploratory Testing: How to Test Software

Video: Benefits of Point Estimation

Video: Use a Continuous Integration Server with Hudson

Video: Extreme JavaScript Performance

Linkopedia January 2010

The Editor — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:50:21 +0000

Blog Post: High quality in application development without unit testing

Blog Post: The Problem with User Stories

Blog Post: Getting Real: the business, design, programming, and marketing philosophies of 37signals

Blog Post: A complete blog engine using Django in 60 minutes

Blog Post: UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil

Article: Love and Marriage: CMMI and Agile Need Each Other

Article: Speaking the Java language without an accent

Article: DSL Evolution

Tool: GMetrics provides metrics for Groovy source code

Tool: Google’s framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms

Video: Is Microsoft Going Agile? Insights from Scott Guthrie

Video: Achieving Web Test Automation with a Mixed-Skill

Video: Event Driven Architecture

Linkopedia December 2009

The Editor — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:03:04 +0000

Post: Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)

Post: Programmers humor

Post: Reduce Manual Test Debt

Article: A Checklist of Questions to Consider Before Starting a Large-Scale Agile Adoption

Article: A performance benchmark method for comparing open source Java application servers

Nitrogen is an Erlang Web framework

Speed Test is a multi user test case management application

UISpec is a Behavior Driven Development framework for the iPhone

Video: Building an Automated QA Infrastructure using Open-Source Python Tools

Video: Behaviour-Driven Development

Video: Event Handling with Linq

Linkopedia November 2009

The Editor — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:12:58 +0000

AltNETpedia

Software Process and Measurement Cast

COBOL on Cogs

Perspectives – One Size Does Not Fit All

Article: Mastering Grails: Mock testing with Grails

Article: The Tao of Screen Design

Article: The Clojure programming language

JRaptor – a Java MVC framework

Approval Tests – an assertion-based testing framework for C#, Java, Ruby

Video: Talking Architects with Len Bass

Video: Test Driving GUI with Approval Tests

Video: Building Applications in the Cloud

Linkopedia October 2009

The Editor — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:25:12 +0000

Top 10 reasons why teams fail with Acceptance Testing

Software quality metrics and model

Comparing Open Source Agile Project Management Tools

Icon Search Engine

Refractor – Diagrammer for .Net Assemblies, also support for Javascript.

KanbanFX – A JavaFX implementation of a Kanban board

Article: The Clojure programming language

Article: Scrum in old fashioned software environments?

Video: The Myth of the Genius Programmer

Video: What are the Roles In Scrum

Video: Top 10 Things in Ruby that Every .NET Developer Needs to Know

350 Java Articles to Improve your Knowledge

The Editor — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:33:34 +0000

The software development articles directory has now more than 1700 references to articles categorized by programming language or software development domain (software testing, database, etc.). The Java category is the most important one with close to 350 articles. The five most popular articles are:
* Application Facades

* J2MEUnit in 10 minutes

* Driving On CruiseControl – Part 1

* Examining the Validity of Inversion of Control

* Refactoring Java Code

Linkopedia September 2009

The Editor — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:42:17 +0000

Excel Spreadsheet: Value Decision Table for Measuring Business Value

The Only Truly Failed Project

Software Developers Should Never Have Dress Codes

Introduction to DDD for the implementation oriented

Tech Support Cheat Sheet

The Grinder a load testing framework

Tackle an open-source scrum tracking tool

Article: Kanban vs Scrum

Article: Grails and Continuous Integration: An Essential Combo

Article: Deployment is the Goal

Video: What they Don’t Teach You About Software at School: Be Smart!

Video: Agile Testing

Video: Storytelling Techniques

Linkopedia August 2009

The Editor — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:36:22 +0000

The Lego Software Process

My Thoughts on NoSQL

Easier mocking with Mockito

Unit Testing Has Changed How I Write Software

Every Tuesday at 1 PM EST Robert Dempsey answers your questions about Agile, live.

Sonar enables you to collect, analyze and report metrics on source code

Agavi is a powerful, scalable PHP5 application framework

Selenium Inspector

Article: Practical Architecture in Impractical Times

Article: Patterns + GWT + Ajax = Usability!

Video: Good Test, Better Code – From Unit Testing to Behavior-Driven Development

Video: Empowering the Agile Team

Video: ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap

Linkopedia July 2009

The Editor — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:43:38 +0000

Stack Overflow Architecture

NOSQL debrief. A conference report on the new database technology.

Flex on Grails – Free online book

Google in your house. A funny video on how it will be to live with GoogleMan.

50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development

gwtuml is an UML modeller based on GWT

Ninject helps you use the technique of dependency injection to break your applications into loosely-coupled, highly-cohesive components, and then glue them back together in a flexible manner.

Article: Design Patterns: Dependency Injection

Article: Project Metrics for Software Development

Article: A multi-tier architecture for building RESTful Web services

Video: Enterprise Integration Patterns with Spring

Video: How To Recruit, Motivate, and Energize Superior Test Engineers

Video: High Moon Studios: A Portrait – Scrum

My 10 + 1 Favorite Unit Testing Articles

The Editor — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:22:27 +0000

This is a (personal) list of articles dealing with unit testing that I like. I have chosen to include material that is longer than the usual (short) blog posting. I encourage readers to give more objectivity to this subjective set by submitting in the comments what they preferred ;o)

Test Flexibly with AspectJ and Mock Objects

Automation for the People: Continuous testing

Exploring The Continuum Of Test Doubles

Unit Testing With C#

End to End, or, Another Run on the Hamster Wheel of Life

In Pursuit of Code Quality: Unit Testing Ajax Applications

Apply Test-Driven Development to your Database Projects

What It Means to Mock: Isolating Units for Testing

Unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) for Flex and ActionScript 3.0

Unit testing Web 2.0 applications using the Dojo Objective Harness

A Guide to Testing Rails Applications

Additional unit testing article resources