by Emily Bache | Dec 10, 2012 | Experience Report
On Saturday I was up in Stockholm facilitating my fourth code retreat for Valtech, and my second Global Day of Code Retreat. It seemed to go very well. I tried out a few new elements, which seemed to make it go even better than the previous ones, so I thought...
by Emily Bache | Nov 15, 2012 | Code Kata, Coding Skills
This Code Kata is included in my new book “The Coding Dojo Handbook”, currently published as a work-in-progress on LeanPub.com. You can also download starting code and these instructions from my github page. As a Health Insurer, I want to be able to search...
by Emily Bache | Sep 21, 2012 | Coding Skills
In my last post I discussed some exercises put together by Luca Minudel. He was using them as part of a study into how developer’s skill at removing SOLID violations was related to their skill at TDD. I initially did the exercises in Java, then translated them...
by Emily Bache | Sep 4, 2012 | Coding Skills
Do you automatically get better design with TDD? Does an otherwise average software developer produce superior designs if they write the tests first rather than afterwards? Does it make a difference what style of TDD you use?incident #1I was at a session at XP2012...
by Emily Bache | Aug 16, 2012 | Review
For a little while now I’ve been collecting Refactoring Kata exercises in a github repo, (you’re welcome to clone it and try them out). I’ve recently facilitated working on some of these katas at various coding dojo meetings, and participants seem to...
