by Emily Bache | Feb 27, 2026 | Testing Strategy and Advice
This article also appears as a video on the Modern Software Engineering Channel. Developers have been using the Test Pyramid forever to decide what kinds of tests to invest in. This model has also been much criticised as not giving terribly helpful guidance. In this...
by Emily Bache | Aug 11, 2020 | Testing Strategy and Advice
By Emily Bache Or: is Given-When-Then Compulsory? In BDD you discover what software you should build through a collaborative process involving both software developers and business people. BDD also involves a lot of test automation and tools like Cucumber and...
by Emily Bache | Feb 29, 2020 | Coding Skills
How your team actually writes its code is very important if your organization is trying to build products in an Agile way. This post considers the risks associated with insufficiently Agile coding practices and explains how to identify them before they become major...
by Emily Bache | Aug 7, 2019 | Coding Skills
Three factors affecting your agility Note: this post originally appeared here https://www.praqma.com/stories/coding-is-like-baking/ Let’s talk about cakes and baking. It’s similar to making software. No really! How quickly you can bake a fantastic cake depends on...
by Emily Bache | Oct 2, 2018 | Experience Report
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...
