It’s startling how rarely software development processes actually talk about the nuts and bolts of development. The way your team develops matters. It’s how you spend most of your time.
This chapter includes practices to speed up your development and make it more reliable:
“Zero Friction” removes the delays that slow down development.
“Continuous Integration” keeps your latest code ready to release.
“Test-Driven Development” ensures your software does exactly what programmers intend it to do.
“Fast, Reliable Tests” prevents tests from becoming a bottleneck.
“Refactoring” enables programmers to improve the design of existing code.
“Spike Solutions” helps programmers learn through small, isolated experiments.
1 Excerpted from the Spike Solution page.