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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...
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 kata was...
I’m very excited to announce the launch of my company website, at http://bacheconsulting.com. The site has information about the coaching and training I offer, links to this blog, my videos on YouTube, and my twitter feed. My hope is that it gives an indication of my...
I travelled to Oslo last weekend, to take part in Agile Coach Camp Norway. This was an open space conference organized by some enthusiasts, not for profit. I became interested in going to the conference when I heard some other agile coaches tweeting about it. I’ve...
The world need more and better programmers. Jason Gorman recently wrote this post encouraging people to start offering software apprenticeships, as an alternative to computer science degrees. He writes: "our computing education in [the UK] is preparing students for a...
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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