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Jon Kruger
Personal blog · jonkruger.com/blogprogrammingcareer
Jon Kruger's personal blog at jonkruger.com covers programming and career. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The Three Amigos”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jon Kruger's post explaining the Three Amigos practice, where a developer, product owner and QA tester write given/when/then acceptance tests. Comments cite it only as a reference.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Three Amigos2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-20
What Hacker News says?
I had to google that as well. It seems to be an agile practice [0] that consist in gathering a developer, a product owner and a QA tester in order to produce acceptance tests using the format given/when/then. [0] http://jonkruger.com/blog/2012/01/04/the-three-amigos/
Comment linking /blog/2012/01/04/the-three-amigos/
on “Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new company?”Submitted The Three Amigos as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe thing about practice is that it takes practice. Here are the issues you raised: - Focus on code coverage - Testing nothing - Spagetti code from doing TDD - IOC + UI/Cucumber takes long to write and run I would have to say I agree, there is a better way to do this. My guess from your last statement is that you are relatively new to software. Don't mistake your teams poor practices for the practices not working. T…
Comment linking /blog/2010/02/08/the-automated-testing-triangle/
on “Test-Driven Development Bypasses Your Brain”