ANNOUNCING - TDD February

Test-driven Development

Hey, it’s Denis 🔮. I’m excited to share with you a long-brewing plan. Starting today I’m opening up the topic of Test-driven Development for focused discussion, discourse and pairing. Over the next few weeks—starting with today’s live stream—we’ll be exploring modern concepts surround the theory, business benefits, tooling and practical adoption of Test-driven Development.

TDD February — The plan

• TDD-related streams every Thursday on 🏔 Our Tech Journey Starting with MODERN BASICS today at 4pm CET we’ll host an audience driven discussion where you can challenge and question every aspect of TDD with myself and

  Adrian Stanek

• A series of new, modern TDD articles on this newsletter
  Covering the recent TDD and craftsmanship books, communities. Modern practices and cloud-focused, remote-first tools and methodologies to make testing and pairing easier. I’ll also help you understand the psychology begind the initial resistance and the unintuitive business benefits behind test-first practices and continuous delivery

• TDD Chat—I launched a TDD chat here on substack
  LinkedIn posts are notoriously difficult to follow and I find reddit rather impersonal and monotonic in its flamebait. So I launched a chat and a thread here on Substack for you to voice your opinion and ask questions.

• 🔐 All Test-driven Development Articles on this Substack are PAYWALL-FREE the entire month.
  My most popular posts are all TDD-related or adjacent to the topics of CD and productivity. During this month I’ve removed the paywalls on them for your viewing, sharing and brain-massage pleasure.

• Book Club launching on Monday—Planning Extreme Programming; Beck, Fowler
  The [Tech Leaders’ Guild] is a place many technology enthusiasts call home. Exploring topics on craftsmanship, engineering organizations, leadership and productivity we meet a few times every month to discuss our growth by reading a book every month. We kicked off the year with Tidy First? and were fortunate enough to be joinined by Kent Beck himself. Join using this link, say hello!

• GRAND FINAL: March 1st—Relaunch of the updated No-Nonsense TDD Booklet
  It’s sexier. Rid of the formatting bugs. Easier to read. Including writing and editorial tips from Kent Beck himself. And it packs a mean punch to your resistance to TDD!
  Paid subscribers and buyers of the original revision get a free copy.