He said: “I asked all my friends, and none of them likes TDD”. This one I haven’t heard before, although I suspect I should have at some point. Like any practice, TDD has a social side. I told him to Read more…
So far, we’ve talked about the process itself, our goals and expectations, what to look for while we’re moving forward, and now it’s time we get to the good stuff. How does an implementation plan actually look like? A good plan Read more…
We talked about management attention and support, and there’s more leaders can do, in order to help us make the process work. Remember those leading indicators? They don’t collect themselves. If we think about those indicators as a feature, there Read more…
Any process we start to roll out, requires management support. If we want it to succeed, anyway. Inside teams, if the team leader opposes the new process, she will either actively, or secretly, work against it. If she’s for it, Read more…
One of the exercises I love to do in my TDD classes is to build a lightsaber in TDD. (Yes, of course that’s how they’re made). In the exercise, I go through listing all kinds of features and use cases, Read more…
in the last post we talked about the failing builds trend as an indicator of success of implementation. The final metric we’ll look at, that can indicate how our process will go, is also related to broken builds. It is Read more…
Part I was HUGE! Now, let’s look at broken builds. We want to see a decrease in their number over time. This may sound a bit strange. Our CI is supposed to tell us if the build breaks, that’s its Read more…
Now that we’ve talked about what we want to achieve, we better spread out some sensors. After all, we’re about to embark on a long and winding road. We want to know if we’re still going the right way, and Read more…
