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Becoming an Agile Software Architect

You're reading from   Becoming an Agile Software Architect Strategies, practices, and patterns to help architects design continually evolving solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563841
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rajesh R V Rajesh R V
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Preface 1. Section 1: Understanding Architecture in the Agile World
2. Chapter 1: Looking through the Agile Architect's Lens FREE CHAPTER
3. Chapter 2: Agile Architecture – The Foundation of Agile Delivery 4. Section 2: Transformation of Architect Roles in Agile
5. Chapter 3: Agile Architect – The Linchpin of Success 6. Chapter 4: Agile Enterprise Architect – Connecting Strategy to Code 7. Chapter 5: Agile Solution Architect – Designing Continuously Evolving Systems 8. Section 3: Essential Knowledge to Become a Successful Agile Architect
9. Chapter 6: Delivering Value with New Ways of Working 10. Chapter 7: Technical Agility with Patterns and Techniques 11. Chapter 8: DevOps and Continuous Delivery to Accelerate Flow 12. Chapter 9: Architecting for Quality with Quality Attributes 13. Chapter 10: Lean Documentation through Collaboration 14. Chapter 11: Architect as an Enabler in Lean-Agile Governance 15. Section 4: Personality Traits and Organizational Influence
16. Chapter 12: Architecting Organizational Agility 17. Chapter 13: Culture and Leadership Traits 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Developing for testability

Agile software development focuses on rapid tests and learns cycles implemented with repeatable and automated testing. Therefore, designing systems for testability is critical. A fully automated regression test pack helps developers fearlessly make changes to code since automated testing can discover faults as early as possible in the delivery cycle before interrupting customers' services.

Testability refers to the ability to test application code, preferably in an automated form. Testability and automatability enable faster feedback cycle time, reduce rejections, and minimize the number of faults in production. Let's see how this works with the TDD approach.

Test-driven development

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a software development approach that advocates writing test cases before code. The code is written against pre-created test cases, which represent scenarios of customers' needs. The red-green-refactor approach is typically...

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