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You’d think that we don’t need this kind of post in our day and age, but I still see unit tests written without the assert part.

Well, the video is up. You can also check out the slides here. Great fun presenting there.

Had a very nice time at Agile Greece. Apart from the “Advanced Agile Programming” workshop, I gave a modified version of the “TDD for the rest of us”. Of course, Star Wars light sabers were involved. [slideshare id=66092356&doc=whytddisimportantforeveryone-160916114121]

Anti-patterns are patterns with negative consequences. In this series I’m going to tackle those patterns, explain what they signify in terms of risks, and what to do instead. Let’s look at a pattern common to people who start out on their TDD journey: They forget to refactor. When they do, Read more…

Last time we’ve started talking about how to approach TDD in real, complex systems. While plain vanilla TDD assumes nothing about the world around our component, in real life, there are constraints we need to relate to. Where we stopped, we talked about rethinking the order of work, based on Read more…

TDD comes from the world of unit testing. It’s optimized for small pieces of code; small increments of functionality. BDD takes the test-first approach, adds functional and user semantics and tries to follow the same formula for the whole software. TDD helps us build a class or a module. But Read more…

Had a great time presenting the “TDD for the rest of us” to testers. Great crowd, and great questions. Here are the slides. [slideshare id=62169180&doc=tddfortherestofus-160519043211]