As I mentioned in my last post I chaired a fishbowl discussion at SDC2010 with title "Should a professional developer always use Test Driven Development?". I was delighted that the invited panelists Michael Feathers, Geoff Bache and Andrew Dalke all turned up, along...
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Should a professional developer always use TDD?
I'm really looking forward to Scandinavian Developer Conference, and in particular the fishbowl discussion I'll be moderating on the Tuesday at 10:30am. Presenting their views will be Michael Feathers, Andrew Dalke, and Geoff Bache, and the topic under discussion is...
developer-in-test role and tester role
In my current assignment, I'm taking the role of "developer-in-test". I'm working in a large distributed development project, which is building new functionality on a large existing codebase. In practice, I work closely with the developers in the project and build...
XP2010 workshop and lightning talk
I've just heard that two of my proposals for XP2010 have been accepted, which means I will definitely be off to Trondheim in early June. I've heard Trondheim is very beautiful, and the XP conference it usually excellent, so I'm really looking forward to it. It will...
code coverage and tests
At GothPy yesterday, Geoff talked about code coverage and tests. Geoff has spent a lot of his evenings lately working on PyUseCase, and getting the test coverage up to 100%, (statement coverage), a feat which he achieved last week. The evidence for this is available...
Domain Specific Languages for Selenium Tests
I gave this talk at JFokus this week in Stockholm. I thought people might be interested in a summary of my main points.I've been using Selenium for web application testing for over a year now, on a couple of different projects. This talk is based on my...
Testing PyTDDmon
One of the things I like about GothPy is that lots of the people in the group enjoy writing code in their spare time, and like to share with us what they're up to.A little while back, Olof came up with this little tool, PyTDDmon, which is to help you when you're doing...
joining eLabs
I've enjoyed my time working for Iptor, but I found I just couldn't refuse Carl-Johan when he offered me a job at eLabs. I first med C-J a few years ago at Got.rb, the local Ruby User Group, and I know he has a great entrepreneurial spirit and deep technical...
JUseCase, dreams of resurrection
JUseCase is the Java version of PyUseCase, for testing GUIs written in Swing. It was originally written as a master's thesis by Claes Verdoes in 2005, under Geoff's supervision. Since then it hasn't been used much, and has lain idle and unmaintained for a while. In...
big UI changes and their effect on tests
I recently read this post in Brian Marick's blog, and it set me thinking. He's talking about a test whose intention in some way survived three major GUI revisions. The test code had to be rewritten each time, but the essence of it was retained. He says: I changed the...
Hi – I´m Emily!
I am an independent consultant with Bache Consulting and chair of the Samman Technical Coaching Society. As a technical coach I work with software development organizations who want to get better at the technical practices needed to be agile, including Test-Driven Development, Refactoring and Incremental Design. I live in Gothenburg, Sweden, although I am originally from the UK. I’ve written two books: “Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman method” and “The Coding Dojo Handbook”. I teach for both O’Reilly and Pluralsight. I’m married to Geoff Bache, creator of TextTest.
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