The Pragmatic Programmer is one of those rare tech books you'll read, re-read, and read again over the years. Whether you're new to the field or an experienced practitioner, you'll come away with fresh insights each and every time.

Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development, independent of any particular language, framework, or methodology, and the Pragmatic philosophy has spawned hundreds of books, screencasts, and audio books, as well as thousands of careers and success stories.

Now, twenty years later, this new edition re-examines what it means to be a modern programmer. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse. Read this book, and you'll learn how to:

• Fight software rot
• Learn continuously
• Avoid the trap of duplicating knowledge
• Write flexible, dynamic, and adaptable code
• Harness the power of basic tools
• Avoid programming by coincidence
• Learn real requirements
• Solve the underlying problems of concurrent code
• Guard against security vulnerabilities
• Build teams of Pragmatic Programmers
• Take responsibility for your work and career
• Test ruthlessly and effectively, including property-based testing
• Implement the Pragmatic Starter Kit
• Delight your users

Written as a series of self-contained sections and filled with classic and fresh anecdotes, thoughtful examples, and interesting analogies, The Pragmatic Programmer illustrates the best approaches and major pitfalls of many different aspects of software development. Whether you're a new coder, an experienced programmer, or a manager responsible for software projects, use these lessons daily, and you'll quickly see improvements in personal productivity, accuracy, and job satisfaction. You'll learn skills and develop habits and attitudes that form the foundation for long-term success in your career. You'll become a Pragmatic Programmer.

One of the most significant books in my life.
--Obie Fernandez, Author, The Rails Way

Twenty years ago, the first edition of The Pragmatic Programmer completely changed the trajectory of my career. This new edition could do the same for yours.
--Mike Cohn, Author of Succeeding with Agile, Agile Estimating and Planning, and User Stories Applied

. . . filled with practical advice, both technical and professional, that will serve you and your projects well for years to come.
--Andrea Goulet, CEO, Corgibytes, Founder, LegacyCode.Rocks

. . . lightning does strike twice, and this book is proof.
--VM (Vicky) Brasseur, Director of Open Source Strategy, Juniper Networks

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Building upon the success of best-sellers The Clean Coder and Clean Code, legendary software craftsman Robert C. Uncle Bob Martin shows how to bring greater professionalism and discipline to application architecture and design.

As with his other books, Martin's Clean Architecture doesn't merely present multiple choices and options, and say use your best judgment it tells you what choices to make, and why those choices are critical to your success. Martin offers direct, no-nonsense answers to key architecture and design questions like:

• What are the best high level structures for different kinds of applications, including web, database, thick-client, console, and embedded apps?
• What are the core principles of software architecture?
• What is the role of the architect, and what is he/she really trying to achieve?
• What are the core principles of software design?
• How do designs and architectures go wrong, and what can you do about it?
• What are the disciplines and practices of professional architects and designers?

Clean Architecture is essential reading for every software architect, systems analyst, system designer, and software manager -- and for any programmer who aspires to these roles or is impacted by their work.

Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code on the fly into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer--but only if you work at it.

What kind of work will you be doing? You'll be reading code--lots of code. And you will be challenged to think about what's right about that code, and what's wrong with it. More importantly, you will be challenged to reassess your professional values and your commitment to your craft.

Clean Code is divided into three parts. The first describes the principles, patterns, and practices of writing clean code. The second part consists of several case studies of increasing complexity. Each case study is an exercise in cleaning up code--of transforming a code base that has some problems into one that is sound and efficient. The third part is the payoff: a single chapter containing a list of heuristics and smells gathered while creating the case studies. The result is a knowledge base that describes the way we think when we write, read, and clean code.

Readers will come away from this book understanding

• How to tell the difference between good and bad code
• How to write good code and how to transform bad code into good code
• How to create good names, good functions, good objects, and good classes
• How to format code for maximum readability
• How to implement complete error handling without obscuring code logic
• How to unit test and practice test-driven development

This book is a must for any developer, software engineer, project manager, team lead, or systems analyst with an interest in producing better code.

As the title states, this is a friendly introduction to software testing. It covers the basics of testing theory and terminology, how to write test plans, and how defects are found and reported. It also goes over more advanced testing topics such as performance testing, security testing, combinatorial testing and others.Written by a software engineer with more than fifteen years of software development and quality assurance experience, this book provides an industry-focused introduction to the field of software testing.

What is the true meaning of quality? How can you influence positive attitudes towards quality within the workplace?

Leading Quality teaches you how to influence and align your company's definition of quality, so that you can deliver the best possible experience to your clients. You will learn the techniques successful leaders use to make their strategic decisions and you will be given the tools to ensure that your team is in alignment to achieving common goals. Leading Quality is the first book that teaches why quality is important and how to incorporate it within the workspace.

Praise for Leading Quality:

A quality mindset remains key to differentiating your product and your company. Leading Quality offers key lessons to develop this mindset.

- Michael Lopp, author of Managing Humans and VP of Product Engineering at Slack

Leading Quality communicates just how important a focus on quality is within your company and is one of the few titles that actually teaches how to lead quality in a clear yet captivating manner.

- Shesh Patel, Engineering Manager at The New York Times

Three elements define any successful product: quality, quality, and quality. Leading Quality is a comprehensive and practical guide to embedding quality into the DNA of any product organization.

- Nick Caldwell, CPO at Looker and former VP of Engineering at Reddit

Kanban is a method of organizing and managing professional services work. It uses Lean concepts such as limiting work in progress to improve results. A Kanban system is a means of balancing the demand for work to be done with the available capacity to start new work. This book provides a distillation of Kanban: the essence of what it is and how it can be used. This brief overview introduces all the principal concepts and guidelines in Kanban and points you to where you can find out more. Essential Kanban Condensed is a great resource to get started or continue exploring ideas for evolutionary change and improvement in business agility.

This book provides programmers with the ability to cost effectively handlecommon legacy code problems without having to go through the hugelyexpensive task of rewriting all existing code. It describes a series of practicalstrategies that developers can employ to bring their existing softwareapplications under control. The author provides useful guidance about how touse these strategies when refactoring or making functional changes to codebases. One of the book's key points is that it teaches developers to write teststhat can be used to make sure they are not unintentionally changing theapplication as they optimize it. Examples are provided in Java, C++, and Csharp, and the book assumes that the reader has some knowledge of UMLnotation. Strategies using UML and code in C++ and Java primarily whilelanguage independent advice will be delivered in side bars and appendices forlanguage specific users.

Radically improve your testing practice and software quality with new testing styles, good patterns, and reliable automation.

Key Features
A practical and results-driven approach to unit testing
Refine your existing unit tests by implementing modern best practices
Learn the four pillars of a good unit test
Safely automate your testing process to save time and money
Spot which tests need refactoring, and which need to be deleted entirely

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About The Book
Great testing practices maximize your project quality and delivery speed by identifying bad code early in the development process. Wrong tests will break your code, multiply bugs, and increase time and costs. You owe it to yourself--and your projects--to learn how to do excellent unit testing.

Unit Testing Principles, Patterns and Practices teaches you to design and write tests that target key areas of your code including the domain model. In this clearly written guide, you learn to develop professional-quality tests and test suites and integrate testing throughout the application life cycle. As you adopt a testing mindset, you'll be amazed at how better tests cause you to write better code.

What You Will Learn

Universal guidelines to assess any unit test
Testing to identify and avoid anti-patterns
Refactoring tests along with the production code
Using integration tests to verify the whole system

This Book Is Written For
For readers who know the basics of unit testing. Examples are written in C# and can easily be applied to any language.

About the Author

Vladimir Khorikov is an author, blogger, and Microsoft MVP. He has mentored numerous teams on the ins and outs of unit testing.

Table of Contents:

PART 1 THE BIGGER PICTURE

1 ] The goal of unit testing
2 ] What is a unit test?
3 ] The anatomy of a unit test

PART 2 MAKING YOUR TESTS WORK FOR YOU

4 ] The four pillars of a good unit test
5 ] Mocks and test fragility
6 ] Styles of unit testing
7 ] Refactoring toward valuable unit tests

PART 3 INTEGRATION TESTING

8 ] Why integration testing?
9 ] Mocking best practices
10 ] Testing the database

PART 4 UNIT TESTING ANTI-PATTERNS

11 ] Unit testing anti-patterns

The ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer Handbook, Third Edition contains information and guidance that supports all the topics within the 2023 version of the Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) Body of Knowledge (BoK). Armed with the knowledge in this handbook, qualified software quality practitioners will be prepared for the ASQ CSQE exam. It is also helpful for any practitioner or manager who needs to understand the aspects of software quality that impacts their work

Jack the Ripper and legacy codebases have more in common than you'd think. Inspired by forensic psychology methods, you can apply strategies to identify problems in your existing code, assess refactoring direction, and understand how your team influences the software architecture. With its unique blend of criminal psychology and code analysis, Your Code as a Crime Scene arms you with the techniques you need to take on any codebase, no matter what programming language you use.

Software development might well be the most challenging task humanity ever attempted. As systems scale up, they also become increasingly complex, expensive to maintain, and difficult to reason about. We can always write more tests, try to refactor, and even fire up a debugger to understand complex coding constructs. That's a great starting point, but you can do so much better.

Take inspiration from forensic psychology techniques to understand and improve existing code. Visualize codebases via a geographic profile from commit data to find development hotspots, prioritize technical debt, and uncover hidden dependencies. Get data and develop strategies to make the business case for larger refactorings. Detect and fix organizational problems from the vantage point of the software architecture to remove bottlenecks for the teams.

The original Your Code as a Crime Scene from 2014 pioneered techniques for understanding the intersection of people and code. This new edition reflects a decade of additional experience from hundreds of projects. Updated techniques, novel case studies, and extensive new material adds to the strengths of this cult classic.

Change how you view software development and join the hunt for better code!

What You Need:

You need to be comfortable reading code. You also need to use Git (or Subversion, Mercurial or similar version-control tool).

Unit testing is more than just a collection of tools and practices--it's a state of mind! This bestseller reveals the master's secrets for delivering robust, maintainable, and trustworthy code.

Thousands of developers have learned to hone their code quality under the tutelage of The Art of Unit Testing. This revised third edition updates an international bestseller to reflect modern development tools and practices, as well as to cover JavaScript.

Inside The Art of Unit Testing, Third Edition you will learn how to:

• Create readable, maintainable, and trustworthy tests
• Work with fakes, stubs, mock objects, and isolation frameworks
• Apply simple dependency injection techniques
• Refactor legacy code with confidence
• Test both frontend and backend code

Effective unit tests streamline your software development process and ensure you deliver consistent high-quality code every time. With practical examples in JavaScript and Node, this hands-on guide takes you from your very first unit tests all the way to comprehensive test suites, naming standards, and refactoring techniques. You'll explore test patterns and organization, working with legacy code and even untestable code. The many tool-agnostic examples are presented in JavaScript and carefully designed so that they apply to code written in any language.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

The art of unit testing is more than just learning the right collection of tools and practices. It's about understanding what makes great tests tick, finding the right strategy for each unique situation, and knowing what to do when the testing process gets messy. This book delivers insights and advice that will transform the way you test your software.

About the book

The Art of Unit Testing, Third Edition shows you how to create readable and maintainable tests. It goes well beyond basic test creation into organization-wide test strategies, troubleshooting, working with legacy code, and merciless refactoring. You'll love the practical examples and familiar scenarios that make testing come alive as you read. This third edition has been updated with techniques specific to object-oriented, functional, and modular coding styles. The examples use JavaScript.

What's inside

• Deciding on test types and strategies
• Test Entry & Exit Points
• Refactoring legacy code
• Fakes, stubs, mock objects, and isolation frameworks
• Object-Oriented, Functional, and Modular testing styles

About the reader

Examples use JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js.

About the author

Roy Osherove is an internationally-recognized expert in unit testing and agile software methodology. Vladimir Khorikov is the author of Manning's Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns, a Pluralsight author, and a Microsoft MVP.

Table of Contents

PART 1
1 The basics of unit testing
2 A first unit test
PART 2
3 Breaking dependencies with stubs
4 Interaction testing using mock objects
5 Isolation frameworks
6 Unit testing asynchronous code
PART 3
7 Trustworthy tests
8 Maintainability
PART 4
9 Readability
10 Developing a testing strategy
11 Integrating unit testing into the organization
12 Working with legacy code
Appendix Monkey-patching functions and modules

This book is aimed at everyone preparing for the ISTQB(R) Certified Tester - Foundation Level exam based on the Foundation Level syllabus (version 4.0) published in 2023. It provides candidates with reliable knowledge based on this document and thus distinguishes itself from all the information about ISTQB(R) syllabi and exams on the Internet, which is often of rather poor quality and may even contain serious errors.

The book expands and details many issues that are described in the new 2023 version of the syllabus in a perfunctory or general way only. According to the ISTQB(R) guidelines for syllabus-based training, an exercise must be provided for each learning objective at the K3 level, and a practical example must be provided for each objective at the K2 or K3 level. In order to satisfy these requirements, the authors prepared numerous exercises and examples for all learning objectives at these levels. In addition, for each learning objective, one or more sample exam questions are presented which are similar to those that the candidate will see in the exam. This makes the book an excellent aid for studying and preparing for the exam and verifying acquired knowledge.

Deliver code reviews that consistently build up your team and improve your applications.

Looks Good to Me offers a unique approach to delivering meaningful code reviews that goes beyond superficial checklists and tense critical conversations. Instead, you'll learn how to improve both your applications and your team dynamics.

Looks Good to Me teaches you how to:

- Understand a code review's benefits proactively prevent loopholes and bottlenecks
- Co-create an objective code review system
- Clarify responsibilities: author, reviewer, team lead/manager, and the team itself
- Establish manageable guidelines and protocols
- Align with your team and explicitly document the policies they will follow
- Automate code quality with linting, formatting, static analysis, and automated testing
- Compose effective comments for any situation
- Consider combining code reviews with pair programming or mob programming
- AI for code reviews

Inside Looks Good to Me you'll find comprehensive coverage of every part of the code review process, from choosing a system to keeping reviews manageable for everyone involved. With this mix of tools, processes, common sense, and compassion, you'll run a highly effective review process from first commit to final deployment.

Foreword by Scott Hanselman.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

Transform code reviews into the positive, productive experiences they're meant to be! Whether it's your code under the microscope or you're the one giving the feedback, this sensible guide will help you avoid the tense debates, fruitless nitpicking, and unnecessary bottlenecks you've come to expect from code reviews.

About the book

Looks Good to Me teaches the considerate, common sense approach to code reviews pioneered by author Adrienne Braganza. You'll learn how to create a cohesive team environment, align review goals and expectations clearly, and be prepared for any changes or obstacles you may face. Along the way, you'll master practices that adapt to how your team does things, with multiple options and solutions, relatable scenarios, and personal tidbits. You'll soon be running highly effective reviews that make your code--and your team--stronger.

What's inside

- Why we do code reviews
- Automate processes for code quality
- Write effective comments

About the reader

For any team member, from developer to lead.

About the author

Adrienne Braganza is an engineer, speaker, instructor, and author of the bestselling book Coding for Kids: Python.

Table of Contents

Part 1
1 The significance of code reviews
2 Dissecting the code review
3 Building your team's first code review process
Part 2
4 The Team Working Agreement
5 The advantages of automation
6 Composing effective code review comments
Part 3
7 How code reviews can suck
8 Decreasing code review delays
9 Eliminating process loopholes
10 The Emergency Playbook
Part 4
11 Code reviews and pair programming
12 Code reviews and mob programming
13 Code reviews and AI
A Team Working Agreement starter template
B Emergency Playbook starter template
C PR templates
D List of resources

This book is written for the test analyst who wants to achieve advanced skills in test analysis, design, and execution. With a hands-on, exercise-rich approach, this book teaches you how to define and carry out the tasks required to put a test strategy into action.

Learn how to analyze the system, taking into account the user's quality expectations. Additionally, learn how to evaluate system requirements as part of formal and informal reviews, using an understanding of the business domain to determine requirement validity. You will be able to analyze, design, implement, and execute tests, using risk considerations to determine the appropriate effort and priority for tests. You will also learn how to report on testing progress and provide necessary evidence to support your evaluations of system quality.

With a quarter-century of software and systems engineering experience, author Rex Black is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing, and is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today. He published several books on testing that sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide. He is President of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) and is a Director of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB).

This book will also help you prepare for the ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst exam. Included are sample exam questions, at the appropriate level of difficulty, for most of the learning objectives covered by the ISTQB Advanced Level syllabus. The ISTQB certification program is the leading software tester certification program in the world. With about 400,000 certificate holders and a global presence in 50 countries, you can be confident in the value and international stature that the Advanced Test Analyst certificate can offer you.

The 2nd edition has been thoroughly revised and is aligned with the curriculum. In addition, some minor corrections have been included.

Often, software engineers and architects work with large, complex code bases that they need to scale and maintain. With this cookbook, author Maximiliano Contieri takes you beyond the concept of clean code by showing you how to identify improvement opportunities and their impact on production code. When it comes to reliability and system evolution, these techniques provide benefits that pay off over time.

Using real life examples in JavaScript, PHP, Java, Python, and many other programming languages, this cookbook provides proven recipes to help you scale and maintain large systems. Every section covers fundamental concepts including readability, coupling, testability, and extensibility, as well as code smells--symptoms of a problem that requires special attention--and the recipes to address them.

As you proceed through this book, refactoring recipes and the variety of code smells increase in complexity. You will:

• Understand the benefits of clean code and learn how to detect code smells
• Learn refactoring techniques step by step
• Gain illustrative code examples in several modern programming languages
• Get a comprehensive catalog of common code smells, their impacts, and possible solutions
• Use code that's straight to the point, favoring readability and learning

In today's cloud native world, where we automate as much as possible, everything is code. With this practical guide, you'll learn how Policy as Code (PaC) provides the means to manage the policies, related data, and responses to events that occur within the systems we maintain--Kubernetes, cloud security, software supply chain security, infrastructure as code, and microservices authorization, among others.

Author Jimmy Ray provides a practical approach to integrating PaC solutions into your systems, with plenty of real-world examples and important hands-on guidance. DevOps and DevSecOps engineers, Kubernetes developers, and cloud engineers will understand how to choose and then implement the most appropriate solutions.

• Understand PaC theory, best practices, and use cases for security
• Learn how to choose and use the correct PaC solution for your needs
• Explore PaC tooling and deployment options for writing and managing PaC policies
• Apply PaC to DevOps, IaC, Kubernetes, and AuthN/AuthZ
• Examine how you can use PaC to implement security controls
• Verify that your PaC solution is providing the desired result
• Create auditable artifacts to satisfy internal and external regulatory requirements

A structured approach to integrating security capabilities into your engineering process is an essential requirement for producing secure software without compromising the integrity of the DevOps framework.

DevSecOps provides a clear path to building systems and protocols that promotes taking ownership of software security and supports the DevOps philosophy. Learn how to:

- Establish a security-first culture within your DevOps teams- Produce high-quality, secure software at pace

- Automate integrated security testing

- Use feedback loops to continuously improve the security of your products

- Measure security within your value streams

Uncover surprises, risks, and potentially serious bugs with exploratory testing. Rather than designing all tests in advance, explorers design and execute small, rapid experiments, using what they learned from the last little experiment to inform the next. Learn essential skills of a master explorer, including how to analyze software to discover key points of vulnerability, how to design experiments on the fly, how to hone your observation skills, and how to focus your efforts.

Software is full of surprises. No matter how careful or skilled you are, when you create software it can behave differently than you intended. Exploratory testing mitigates those risks.

Part 1 introduces the core, essential skills of a master explorer. You'll learn to craft charters to guide your exploration, to observe what's really happening (hint: it's harder than it sounds), to identify interesting variations, and to determine what expected behavior should be when exercising software in unexpected ways.

Part 2 builds on that foundation. You'll learn how to explore by varying interactions, sequences, data, timing, and configurations. Along the way you'll see how to incorporate analysis techniques like state modeling, data modeling, and defining context diagrams into your explorer's arsenal.

Part 3 brings the techniques back into the context of a software project. You'll apply the skills and techniques in a variety of contexts and integrate exploration into the development cycle from the very beginning.

You can apply the techniques in this book to any kind of software. Whether you work on embedded systems, Web applications, desktop applications, APIs, or something else, you'll find this book contains a wealth of concrete and practical advice about exploring your software to discover its capabilities, limitations, and risks.

Learn how to write automated tests for Dynamics 365 Business Central and discover how you can implement them in your daily work

Key Features:

• Leverage automated testing to advance over traditional manual testing methods
• Write, design, and implement automated tests
• Explore various testing frameworks and tools compatible with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Book Description:

Dynamics 365 Business Central is a cloud-based SaaS ERP proposition from Microsoft. With development practices becoming more formal, implementing changes or new features is not as simple as it used to be back when Dynamics 365 Business Central was called Navigator, Navision Financials, or Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision, and the call for test automation is increasing.

This book will show you how to leverage the testing tools available in Dynamics 365 Business Central to perform automated testing. Starting with a quick introduction to automated testing and test-driven development (TDD), you'll get an overview of test automation in Dynamics 365 Business Central. You'll then learn how to design and build automated tests and explore methods to progress from requirements to application and testing code. Next, you'll find out how you can incorporate your own as well as Microsoft tests into your development practice. With the addition of three new chapters, this second edition covers in detail how to construct complex scenarios, write testable code, and test processes with incoming and outgoing calls.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to write your own automated tests for Microsoft Business Central.

What You Will Learn:

• Understand the why and when of automated testing
• Discover how test-driven development can help to improve automated testing
• Explore the six pillars of the Testability Framework of Business Central
• Design and write automated tests for Business Central
• Make use of standard automated tests and their helper libraries
• Understand the challenges in testing features that interact with the external world
• Integrate automated tests into your development practice

Who this book is for:

This book is for consultants, testers, developers, and development managers working with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Functional as well as technical development teams will find this book on automated testing techniques useful.

Testing is a critical discipline for any organization looking to deliver high-quality software. This practical book provides software developers and QA engineers with a comprehensive one-stop guide to testing skills in 10 different categories. You'll learn appropriate strategies, concepts, and practical implementation knowledge you can apply from both a development and testing perspective for web and mobile applications.

Author Gayathri Mohan offers examples of more than 40 tools you can use immediately. You'll acquire the skills to conduct exploratory testing, test automation, cross-functional testing, data testing, mobile testing, and visual testing, as well as tests for performance, security, and accessibility. You'll learn to integrate them in continuous integration pipelines to gain faster feedback. Once you dive into this guide, you'll be able to tackle challenging development workflows with a focus on quality.

With this book, you will:

• Learn how to employ various testing types to yield maximum quality in your projects
• Explore new testing methods by following the book's strategies and concepts
• Learn how to apply these tools at work by following detailed examples
• Improve your skills and job prospects by gaining a broad exposure to testing best practices