Scott Bellware sbellware

TDD in Tatters

Description

TDD has been tattered, torn, twisted, stood on its head, and pounded into an pulp of techno-fetishism. TDD was a game-changer, but the focus in the interceding years has shifted from technique to tools, and TDD has been devolving into a lost art. By tearing TDD down to its bones, this presentation presents TDD in its essence, free of tools, and reinforcing the primary focus on design principles. It attempts to convince you to return to a simpler time when TDD was still about design, and software developers were dutifully steeped in the critical importance of design principles. To avoid being held to any particularly offensive positions, this talk liberally attacks the status quo of testing and contemporary tool-focused TDD in Ruby, while introducing yet-another testing library in Ruby :)

Bio

Scott Bellware was an early adopter of Agile and TDD in late-2000, and has since taught TDD to scores of developers in coaching gigs, workshops, and conferences around North America an

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Agile Kaizen

Kaizen is the unstated, ever-present cornerstone of Agile Development, but it's if often seen as distant and abstract thing rather than one of the tangible Agile practices, like standups, testing, or estimation. Seen as a "soft skill", Kaizen is in fact it's the hard science, the central motivator, the justification, and the traffic cop of other Agile practices. This presentation delivers Kaizen without the typical esoteric language, and re-casts it as the tangible, central aspect of Agile Development that all other practices pivot around. It presents the tools and techniques of Kaizen that you can put to work in your team right now in the pursuit of ever higher levels of performance.

TDD in Tatters

TDD has been tattered, torn, twisted, stood on its head, and pounded into an pulp of techno-fetishism. TDD was a game-changer, but the focus in the interceding years has shifted from technique to tools, and TDD has been devolving into a lost art. By tea

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