Helping your team succeed

One of the many goals of a software architect is to help their team succeed and this can come in many forms. In this section, we will cover some of the practices that a software architect can put into place to help team members succeed. They include unit testing, ensuring that a development environment is easy to set up, pair programming, and code reviews.

Unit testing

Testing is one of those things that some developers do not enjoy doing, even though it is essential to develop high-quality software applications. Developers should test early and often, which is a practice of many agile software development methodologies.

If the practice of writing and executing unit tests is not already part of the organization, software architects should institute the practice. In this section, we will go over some of the essential details of unit testing.

What are unit tests?

Unit testing is the practice of testing the smallest testable units of a software system, such as methods,...