Teaching a diverse bunch of Testers

I’ve just spent 3 weeks teaching a class of 11 students about automated testing, as part of a one year course in software testing. The course is organized by the local “Kvalificerade Yrkes Högskolan”, KYH. (loosely translated: Skilled Trade...

Nordic Ruby and Diversity

This is the second time I’ve attended Nordic Ruby, you can read about what I thought last year here. This year I enjoyed the conference more, for several reasons. There were some small changes in the way it was organized, (on a Friday and Saturday instead of...

TDD in terms of states and moves

The classic description of TDD that most people know is the 3 rules by Bob Martin. I think his rules are a very succinct description, and for a long time I’ve just relied on them, together with a picture of “red-green-refactor” to describe TDD to...

Online resources for Coding Dojos

If you’re running a coding dojo, or if you’re an individual who likes to practice code kata, there are a number of websites which aim to help. In this post I want to review some of what’s out there. http://codekata.pragprog.com/ The idea of the code...