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I've never been to Öredev before, and it really is a very impressive conference. Gathered in Malmö right now, is over a thousand developers, with a collection of speakers representing the elite of the global software development industry. The sessions are overflowing...
Programmers have a vested interest in making sure the software they create does what they think it does. When I'm coding I prefer to work in the context of feedback from automated tests, that help me to keep track of what works and how far I've got. I've written...
I'm speaking next week at ScanDev on Tour in Stockholm on the subject of "Software Development Craftsmanship", and as part of my research I read both "The Clean Coder" by Robert C. Martin and "Apprenticeship Patterns" by Dave Hoover & Adewale Oshineye. These are...
This weekend I was in Stockholm to facilitate a Code Retreat, organized by Peter Lind and sponsored by Valtech. We were about 40 coders gathered in the warm autumn sunshine early on a Saturday morning at Valtech's offices. (Do take a look at Peter's blog post about...
I've been working on a kata called "Tennis"*, which I find interesting, because it is quite quick to code, yet is a big enough problem to be worth doing. It's also possible to enumerate pretty much all the allowed scores, and get very comprehensive test coverage. What...
As I mentioned in my last post I've recently taught a course in automated testing to a bunch of students at KYH. Before the course I spent some time looking for good course books for them. I looked at a few options and eventually decided on "The art of Unit Testing...
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 University). The students...
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 taking up...
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 newcomers. More...
The programme for DynCon has just been published, and the whole conference is about dynamically typed languages. There are talks about all sorts of languages, old and new, and I think it's going to be really interesting to get people together from all these different...
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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