Test Driven Development: That’s Not What We Meant

Featuring Steve Freeman

Test-Driven Development (TDD) has been so successful that it’s now unfashionable. But many developers complain that being required to write tests just gets in the way of shipping features. That wasn’t our experience when we first stumbled onto TDD a dozen years ago, so what went...

Test Driven Development: That’s Not What We Meant

Featuring Steve Freeman

Test-Driven Development (TDD) has been so successful that it’s now unfashionable. But many developers complain that being required to write tests just gets in the way of shipping features. That wasn’t our experience when we first stumbled onto TDD a dozen years ago, so what went...

Test Driven Development: That’s Not What We Meant

Featuring Steve Freeman

Test-Driven Development (TDD) has been so successful that it’s now unfashionable. But many developers complain that being required to write tests just gets in the way of shipping features. That wasn’t our experience when we first stumbled onto TDD a dozen years ago, so what went...

TDD: That's not what we meant talk

Featuring Steve Freeman

Test-Driven Development (TDD) has been so successful that it's now unfashionable. But many developers complain that being required to write tests just gets in the way of shipping features. That wasn't your experience when you first stumbled onto TDD a dozen years ago, so what went wrong?...

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A meta-pipeline for generating continuous delivery pipelines for microservices

Featuring Steve Freeman and Hilverd Reker

At SpringerNature the development group is adopting microservices. They found that having developers set up build pipelines by hand for each service was time-consuming and led to inconsistencies as our environment changed, so they automated the process.

"Given When Then" considered harmful

Featuring Steve Freeman

Recently, I've seen several systems with test code that is intended to be "business facing" but that, in practice, is just getting in the way. The test code is bloated and repetitive, and the language of the tests doesn't really explain the original intent.

Fractal TDD: Using tests to drive system design

Featuring Steve Freeman

The benefits you get from writing tests first and using them to drive design can apply at the system level too. In this talk, Steve Freeman will present his experiences applying Test-Driven Development (TDD) at all levels of the development process.

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Good Enough is the enemy of the Good

Featuring Nat Pryce and Steve Freeman

We spend too much of our working lives coping with inadequate systems on inappropriate kit. We are reassured that this is acceptable because we must "deliver value" and not be "perfectionist". This is just wrong. We've seen teams that have achieved orders of magnitude more...

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Featuring Steve Freeman

In this ACCU session, Kevlin Henney introduces various contributors from the recent book "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know", and we get to listen and discuss the ideas.

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97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Featuring Kevlin Henney and Steve Freeman

In this ACCU session, Kevlin Henney introduces various contributors from the recent book "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know", and we get to listen and discuss the ideas.

Sustainable Test-Driven Development

Featuring Steve Freeman

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...

Steve Freeman - Mini-In-The-Brain

Featuring Steve Freeman

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Example Driven Developments

Featuring Steve Freeman