Coding Is Like Cooking
A blog by Emily Bache
Geoff has been working really hard for the past few months, writing pyUseCase 3.0. It has some very substantial improvements over previous versions, and I am very excited about it. He's written about how it works here.It's a tool for testing GUIs with a record-replay...
When I wrote this post about the public Texttest nightjob statistics, I thought they were a bit confusing and hard to understand. Geoff has now rewritten the page to contain fewer numbers, and just report the passed and failed tests from the previous night. I think...
It's Java Forum next week, here in Göteborg. I'm giving a short talk about TestNG, a tool I've been using lately.My basic conclusion is that TestNG is a very easy step from JUnit, and one you don't need to take if all your tests are true unit tests (ie fast and...
I wrote a blog post about these tools on my company blog. In swedish.
Bob Martin has just written a post in his blog where he tells the story of a test manager who has 80 000 manual tests, and wishes they were automated instead. Bob writes:"One common strategy to get your tests automated is to outsource the problem. You hire some team...
Geoff has just put up a couple of new pages on the texttest website, with some coverage statistics for his self tests. He uses coverage.py to produce this report which shows all the python modules in texttest, and marks covered statements in green. I think it's pretty...
Gathering ideas for my new dojo :-)Ivan Sanchez wrote about starting a coding dojo, and he rekons a Randori is best with 10 people or less. We will be more than 10 at JDojo@gbg. He suggests a prepared kata in that case. That might be possible. His favourite starting...
I had a fantastic time at XP2009 in Sardinia, but I didn't find time to blog much about it until now. I just wrote a report of my TDD workshop on jsolutions.se.
I'm at XP2009 this week, the sun is shining, the sea is blue and the italians are disorganized. I'm having a great time so far. This morning I was at a workshop led by Danilo Sato and Francisco Trindade - 'The lego lean game'. The idea was that we should learn about...
I usually follow the news in the agile world on infoq, and I like the feature whereby you can listen to selected conference presentations online. This week I was making some biscuits one evening, so I took the chance to listen to Linda Rising talking about "agility:...
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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