by Emily Bache | Aug 19, 2026 | Augmented Coding
This post is also available as a video on the Modern Software Engineering channel Kent Beck once said – ‘I’m not a great developer, I’m a good developer with great habits’. Now, Kent Beck clearly is a great developer – well known for his work on JUnit as...
by Emily Bache | Jun 25, 2026 | Augmented Coding
This post is available as a video on the Modern Software Engineering Channel The focus of technical coaching is the minute-by-minute habits that software developers need to create good quality working software that lasts. These days all the teams I meet are asking for...
by Emily Bache | Jan 2, 2018 | Experience Report
Fictitious people that might get real – and sue you! Finding realistic data for testing is often a headache, and a good strategy is often to fabricate it. But what if your randomly generated data turns out to belong to a real person? What if they complain and...
by Emily Bache | Mar 19, 2013 | Coding Skills, Conference information
I’ve been working on this Kata “Gilded Rose” at a few different coding dojos lately. There is even a video of a session I did at the “Tampere Goes Agile” conference recently. In the video, you can see me talking about my Principles of...
by Emily Bache | Nov 15, 2012 | Code Kata, Coding Skills
This Code Kata is included in my new book “The Coding Dojo Handbook”, currently published as a work-in-progress on LeanPub.com. You can also download starting code and these instructions from my github page. As a Health Insurer, I want to be able to search...
