agile software development practice adding to TDD the description of the desired functional behavior of the new functionality.

 

test-first software development practice in which acceptance criteria for new functionality are created as automated tests. The failing tests are constructed to pass as development proceeds and accept [..]

creating a logical or physical copy of code within a version control system so that this copy might be changed in isolation.

software code that is expressed well, formatted correctly, and organized for later coders to understand. Clarity is preferred over cleverness.

a measurement indicating the amount of product code that is exercised by tests.

a software delivery practice similar to Continuous Deployment except a human action is required to promote changes into a subsequent environment along the pipeline.

a software delivery practice in which the release process is fully automated in order to have changes promoted to the production environment with no human intervention.

agile software development practice popularized by Extreme Programming in which newly checked-in code is built, integrated and tested frequently, generally multiple times a day.

a measure of code complexity based on the number of independent logical branches through a code base. Cyclomatic complexity is expressed as a simple integer.