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In The Brain of Steve Freeman: Sustainable Test-Driven Development

Sustainable Test-Driven Development
This talk is about the qualities we look for in test code that keep the development "habitable." We want to make sure the tests pull their weight by making them expressive, so that we can tell what's important when we read them and when they fail, and by making sure they don't become a maintenance drag themselves. We need to apply as much care and attention to the tests as we do to the production code, although the coding styles may differ. Difficulty in testing might imply that we need to change our test code, but often it's a hint that our design ideas are wrong and that we ought to change the production code. In practice, these qualities are all related to and support each other. Test-driven development combines testing, specification, and design into one holistic activity.

ABOUT STEVE FREEMAN

Agile Software Development pioneer in the UK, chair of the first London XP day, Steve has gained many years of experience applying agile methods and example driven development on commercial projects, including banks, ISPs and financial data providers
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PODCAST SUSTAINABLE TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

AGILE TESTING & BDD COURSES

	ANTONY MARCANO & RACHEL DAVIES' AGILE QA
	BDD AND SPECIFICATION BY EXAMPLE
	FRANK COHEN'S TEST AUTOMATION BOOTCAMP
	GOJKO ADZIC'S AGILE ACCEPTANCE TESTING INTRO
	GOJKO ADZIC'S AGILE ACCEPTANCE TESTING WORKSHOP
	GOJKO ADZIC'S TDD .NET DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
	GOJKO ADZIC'S TDD JAVA DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
	JANET GREGORY'S PRACTICAL AGILE TESTING WORKSHOP
	LIZ KEOGH'S BDD WORKSHOP
	ROBERT SCHNEIDER'S SERVICE TESTING W SOAPUI PRO
	ROBERT SCHNEIDER'S SERVICE TESTING WITH SOAPUI
	VENKAT SUBRAMANIAM'S REFACTORING COURSE

AGILE TESTING & BDD PODCASTS

	Interactive Agile Acceptance Testing Cli David Evans : 2nd Mar 2010
	Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback Elizabeth Keogh : 1st Mar 2010
	Acceptance-Test Driven Development - Br John Smart : 11th Feb 2010
	Using Cucumber for BDD and Agile accepta Gojko Adzic : 4th Feb 2010
	Waking up to the New Economics of IT Emma McGrattan : 15th Dec 2009
	using BDD Mauro Talevi : 14th Dec 2009
	Agile testing Nathan Bain : 3rd Dec 2009
	Interview David Joyce : 1st Dec 2009
	Interview David Laribee : 1st Dec 2009
	Interview David Laribee : 1st Dec 2009
	How to sell BDD to the business Dan North : 27th Nov 2009
	Lessons Learned Implementing Agile Janet Gregory : 27th Nov 2009
	Challenge requirements Gojko Adzic : 27th Nov 2009
	Parkbench Panel Discussion : 27th Nov 2009
	Fractal BDD Elizabeth Keogh : 27th Nov 2009

OTHER AGILE TESTING & BDD EVENTS

	Gojko Adzic's TDD Java Development Workshop 2 DAY COURSE. Paris, Wednesday, March 31st
	Agile Testing meetup group FREE EVENT: Gems of Selenium... London, Tuesday, April 6th
	Liz Keogh's BDD Workshop 1 DAY COURSE. Featuring Elizabeth Keogh London, Friday, April 9th
	Robert Schneider's Service Testing w soapUI Pro 2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Robert Schneider London, Tuesday, April 20th
	Gojko Adzic's Agile Acceptance Testing workshop 3 DAY COURSE. Featuring Gojko Adzic London, Monday, May 10th
	Venkat Subramaniam's Refactoring Course 1 DAY COURSE. Featuring Venkat Subramaniam London, Friday, May 14th
	Frank Cohen's Test Automation BootCamp 2.5 DAY COURSE. Paris, Monday, June 14th
	Antony Marcano & Rachel Davies' Agile QA 2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Rachel Davies & Antony Marcano London, Tuesday, June 15th