TDD

I spoke with Dave Farley on Test-Driven Development and DORA Metrics

Kuddos for groCTO for inviting me to co-host the webinar with Dave Farley on DORA Metrics, TDD, and modern continuous delivery practices

Oct 29 •

1:04:16

What I read this we—errr, MONTH

7 links to help you grow, take inspiration for your own journey

Oct 24 •

Strangler Fig Applications ≠ Stable Projects

The purpose is exchanging the old constraints for new ones, rather than making the application appear more youthful. And they rarely go according to…

Aug 26 •

3 Surprising lessons you can adopt from Extreme Programming

Even if you are using something else: Scrum, Kanban, your custom™ process.

Jun 7 •

Behavioral Composition (+ Jonathan Hall)

We stumbled on a problem where we had to compare state-based with behavior-based testing in order to get our context and mocks right. Using Kent Beck's…

May 2 •

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2:08:59

TDD in Go—Pair programming with Jonathan Hall

We have been coding on and off with Jonathan as an exercise and mutual guest-streaming. This time we followed-up on a conversation that was sparked from…

Apr 15 •

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2:06:05

The worst test suites read like word salad after a C++ compiler had a stroke. The best test suites adopt business language.

Write Tests in plain language

Apr 10 •

7 Types of Tests

Comedy gold, with a bit of satire and painful technical debt lessons. Adrian joined about an hour into the stream. Summary and highlights of the 2h30m…

Apr 4 •

2:51:37

Engineering Management: Dealing with the Broken Window effect, understanding Resistance and Objections to Quality

The first broken window is the signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing. An essay on technical debt and bad habits.

Mar 14 •

Optimise for Change when Pressured for Features

Businesses with low outcomes for big budgets are often stuck in a negative feedback cycle. When most of their investment is perceived as ineffective…

Feb 29 •

Agile transformations to make stakeholders "happy" reduces trust

Organizational culture is moulded by many forces, often conflicting in nature or incentives. Recognize there is no perfect "stillness". You will only…

Feb 28 •

Part 1: Structure Independent, behavior driven TDD

Recap from our second TDD February stream

Feb 22 •

57:05

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