Coding Is Like Cooking
A blog by Emily Bache
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Note: this article was first published on Praqma's website Experiences Pairing with Llewellyn Falco How does a Technical Agile Coach improve work in a development team? When Llewellyn Falco asked me to pair with him at a client I jumped at the chance to see how...
This post was originally published on Praqma's blog A short story about Pre-tested Integration Three programmers Continuous Integration and Code Review are strongly correlated with success. Many use Pull Requests for code review, but for co-located teams this...
This post was originally published on Praqma's blog Continuous Integration is now synonymous with having a server set up to build and test any change submitted to a central repository. But this isn’t the only way, or even how CI used to work. What did we do before...
Fictitious people that might get real - and sue you! Finding realistic data for testing is often a headache, and a good strategy is often to fabricate it. But what if your randomly generated data turns out to belong to a real person? What if they complain and you get...
As a woman programmer, I have noticed there is something of a gender imbalance in my profession. It's an issue that's interested me for a while, not least because people often ask me about what we can do to improve the situation. For myself, I enjoy writing code and I...
Note: this was originally posted on Praqma's blog The life of a consultant has drawn me back, but perhaps surprisingly, this time it’s not a return to my one-person firm. Rather than reinvigorating Bache Consulting, I’ve decided to join Praqma, the Continuous Delivery...
I was in Finland recently, at the European Testing Conference. I both attended the conference and presented a workshop about "Approval testing with TextTest". I won't say any more about that, since Ben Linders did a brilliant write-up already that was published on...
Note: This post first appeared on Pagero's blog One of the questions that Kent Beck asked when he was developing the eXtreme Programming development methodology, was what happens if we turn the dials up all the way to 10? Take a practice we know is good, and do more...
Please note: this article was originally published on Pagero's site. At Pagero we are very proud of the technical architecture of our flagship product, Pagero Online. We’re successfully handling more document transactions than ever, as we see an ever increasing demand...
I've been favouring an Approval Testing approach for many years now, since I find it pretty useful in many situations, particularly for acceptance tests. Not many people I meet know the term though, and even fewer know how to use the technique. Recently I've put...
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. I am also on Mastodon as emilybache@sw-development-is.social.
If you’d like to know a bit more about me, my work, and the talks and workshops I offer, please visit my main website: EmilyBache.com. There, you’ll find information about my background, upcoming events, and the services I provide as a technical coach and consultant. It’s a good place to start if you’re curious about how I can support your team in improving coding skills and agile practices.
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