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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...
Last week I met Woody Zuill when he came to Göteborg to give a workshop about Mob Programming. At first glance mobbing seems really innefficient. You have a whole team of maybe 6-7 people sitting together all day, every day, programming at one computer. How could...
I've been interested for a while in the relationship between TDD and good design for a while, and the SOLID principles of Object Oriented Design in particular. I've got this set of 4 "Racing Car" exercises that I originally got from Luca Minudel, that I've done in...
Recently I became intrigued with something Seb Rose said on his blog about 'recycling' tests. He talks about first producing a test for a 'low fidelity' version of the solution, and refining it as you learn better what the solution should look like. In a follow-up...
I forget exactly when, but I think it was 2008 or 2009. Anyway, I was at a software conference, and I was chatting with a developer after one of the sessions about cool new technologies and stuff. I don't remember what hot new thing it was we talked about, all I...
I was recently at the Software Craftsmanship Conference at Bletchley Park in the UK. This is a one-day conference for software developers, attended by around 150 programmers. All proceeds from the event go to support Bletchley Park, which is of historical interest to...
Last week I created a little quiz and put a link to it on Twitter. I was interested to see whether the terminology around Test Doubles has standardized on Gerard Meszaro's definitions, from his book "xUnit Test Patterns", and I thought my twitter followers (I have...
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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