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Agile Technical Practices Distilled
Agile Technical Practices Distilled

Agile Technical Practices Distilled: A learning journey in technical practices and principles of software design

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  • Discover the essence of Agile software development and the key principles of software design
  • Explore the fundamental practices of Agile working, including test-driven development (TDD), refactoring, pair programming, and continuous integration
  • Learn and apply the four elements of simple design

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The number of popular technical practices has grown exponentially in the last few years. Learning the common fundamental software development practices can help you become a better programmer. This book uses the term Agile as a wide umbrella and covers Agile principles and practices, as well as most methodologies associated with it. You’ll begin by discovering how driver-navigator, chess clock, and other techniques used in the pair programming approach introduce discipline while writing code. You’ll then learn to safely change the design of your code using refactoring. While learning these techniques, you’ll also explore various best practices to write efficient tests. The concluding chapters of the book delve deep into the SOLID principles - the five design principles that you can use to make your software more understandable, flexible and maintainable. By the end of the book, you will have discovered new ideas for improving your software design skills, the relationship within your team, and the way your business works.

Who is this book for?

This book is designed for software developers looking to improve their technical practices. Software coaches may also find it helpful as a teaching reference manual. This is not a beginner's book on how to program. You must be comfortable with at least one programming language and must be able to write unit tests using any unit testing framework.

What you will learn

  • Learn the red, green, refactor cycle of classic TDD and practice the best habits such as the rule of 3, triangulation, object calisthenics, and more
  • Refactor using parallel change and improve legacy code with characterization tests, approval tests, and Golden Master
  • Use code smells as feedback to improve your design
  • Learn the double cycle of ATDD and the outside-in mindset using mocks and stubs correctly in your tests
  • Understand how Coupling, Cohesion, Connascence, SOLID principles, and code smells are all related
  • Improve the understanding of your business domain using BDD and other principles for "doing the right thing, not only the thing right"

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Luiz Fernando Calaça Silva Oct 02, 2022
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O livro veio em excelente estado e para quem o está procurando como uma referência técnica para o contexto de Engenharia de Software podes comprar, pois, é muitíssimo bom.
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Jonny Oct 24, 2019
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This is the book I would suggest to anyone serious about learning XP techniques and most valuable principles and practices in modern software development. Many exercises, books suggestions, deep quotes and interesting stories make this work also an unexpected pleasant read which is quite remarkable for a technical book!
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Raul A. Alzate Feb 24, 2020
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Is a great book, It helped me a lot.
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Usuario anónimo Mar 12, 2024
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Sobre el contenido aun no puedo decir mucho pues no lo he acabado, seguramente actualice esta opinión cuando lo termine.Lo que si quería comentar son las calidades del libro.En un primer momento me pareció raro que un libro técnico de más de 400 páginas costase 24 euros. Entendí el porqué en cuando lo recibí.Obviando el tema de que el libro me llegó en buen estado (a veces ya sabemos como llegan los libros de Amazon, con esquinas dobladas o manchados), los materiales no son para nada buenos.La primera impresión es de que parece un libro print on demand. La calidad de las páginas y la portada es como si fueran folios (nada que ver con libros como Clean Code, donde las páginas tienen un buen gramaje y brillo).El interior del libro no mejora, han reducido los márgenes a la mínima expresión y da la sensación de estar todo apelotonado. Supongo que ha sido para condensar contenido, pero un poco más de espacio no hubiera estado mal.Por si fuera poco, las imágenes están pixeladas.Al final de cada capítulo se incluye un apartado de recursos. El problema es que han metido, literalmente, los chorizos de URLs sin acortar. Entiendo que en PDF esto funcione, pero en papel es una locura querer acceder al recurso y tener que meter a mano una URL gigante. Además, algunos de estos enlaces están rotos.En fin, entiendo que será cosa de esta editorial baratera. Tenía el libro en PDF pero lo quería en papel por la comodidad, pero ya veo cómo se las gasta esta gente.
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Ben Feb 15, 2020
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The title is exactly what the book delivers, a bunch of technical practices delivered concisely and effectively. Unfortunately there are a good few typos and mistakes that a few times made the text confusing.The biggest issue however is the "Where are we in the big picture" diagrams are practically unreadable due to the print resolution, and got progressively worse as the chapters added more circles with micro-text.
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