Start Your Project With a Walking Skeleton
In order to reduce risk on large software development projects, you need to figure out all the big unknowns as early as possible. The best way to do this is to have a real end-to-end test with no stubs against a system that’s deployed in production. You could do this by building a so-called Walking Skeleton, a term coined by Alistair Cockburn . He defined it as a tiny implementation of the system that performs a small end-to-end function....