by Emily Bache | Aug 6, 2012 | Coding Skills
Please note – As of March 2013, I have rewritten this post in the light of further experience and discussions. The updated post is available here. I feel like I’ve spent most of my career learning how to write good automated tests in an agile environment....
by Emily Bache | Nov 9, 2011 | Coding Skills
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....
by Emily Bache | Sep 21, 2011 | Coding Skills, Experience Report
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...
by Emily Bache | Aug 25, 2011 | Code Kata
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...
by Emily Bache | Aug 9, 2011 | Review
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...
