“7 Steps for writing your first test” Slides
Here are the slides from my Sela Developer Practices 2013 talk: PS: If you were not one of the thousands in attendance, I’m doing it as a Typemock webinar, Thursday May 9th. Register here.
Category Archives: Unit tests
Skillz
Everyone has skills. According to the dictionary, here’s the definition of Skill: The ability to use one’s knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance. In other words: ability to do something. Some will say: ability to do something well. In a tweet a while ago, Jim Grenning defined the 3 skills of refactoring: Recognize
Upcoming Talks
It’s time to talk about when I’m going to talk next. January 29-30th is Israeli 2nd annual Agile Practitioners conference. While having a 2nd year in a row in Israel is a success by itself. But wait, there’s more. Keynoting are Dan North and Boris Gloger, with more international speakers, as well as some of
Clean Sweep
One of the questions I got in my Agile Practitioners talk startled me. Actually, it wasn’t the question that startled me, it was how I answered. I was talking about why you cannot say “our organization is going agile” while saying: “we’ll get our developers into that agile business in a year”. I know it
Can software succeed even if Agile failed?
I’ve got very interesting feedback for my last post about the decline of agile. I strongly believe that producing quality software, regardless of how it is produced is the most important thing we can do, regardless if we’re developers, managers or anything in between. But is it enough to save agile? Maybe it’s the wrong
Upcoming Presentations: Florida First!
Here’s a short, incomplete list of my upcoming public speaking engagements. When I know, you’ll know. I’ll be speaking at the Agile Development Practices East Conference on Wednesday November 9th, at the Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, Florida. My talk is about “8 Principles for Better Unit Testing”. I’ll be at the conference area throughout Wednesday
Fear, Courage and Unit Testing
At NDC I was fortunate to take part in a session of Cyber Dojo, run by Jon Jagger and Olve Maudal. You can have a taste at it online, but it’s better experienced with a guide. The attendees pair up, select a kata and a programming language and start adding features and tests. Every 5
5 Things “House” Can Teach You about Fixing Bugs
I’m a fan of “House”. I’m currently catching up on the 7th season, where the theme is about truth and lies. For those leaving in a cave with no cable TV, “House” is about a brilliant, misanthropic doctor who runs a diagnostic team in a hospital. In each episode the team dives into a mystery
My “Expert Unit Testing Tips” Presentation
This is the presentation I gave today at the “QA and Development in Agile” conference (It’s a bit more detailed than what the people in the room saw). This wasn’t a technical presentation, just an overview to the newly initiated to unit testing – third of the room wrote unit tests, the rest didn’t. And
Can You Apply Agile for Long Processes?
A funny thing happened to me last week. As I was driving to work, I was listening to another brilliant podcast from Manager-Tools on Assumptive Goal Settings. The curious name (for me, at least) is actually something we’ve done before. AGS is about reaching a goal, when you don’t have a clue how to get