Architecture & practice·Estimation and planning
the first thing built was a thin path all the way from the button to the database, doing almost nothing.
Walking skeleton
Also calledtracer bullet, end-to-end slice
A minimal end-to-end implementation that exercises every layer and deployment step before any of them are fleshed out. It front-loads the integration risk — the wiring, the environments, the authentication, the pipeline — which is where surprises usually live, rather than leaving it for the final week. It is the standard antidote to a project that is ninety percent done on every component and has never once run.