Roy has a pretty thoughful post on the barrier to entry for most developers with Test-Driven Development. I hope I am not doing Roy a disservice by summarizing it as: we have made TDD unapproachable to many by making it more and more complex. I would agree with many of the points that Roy makes about...

It's been a while. I have been heads down on a new project (more about that some other time), and have not got around to posting. Without further ado here is the follow up post to TDD and Hart To Test Areas, Part 1 . Depend upon Abstractions The Gang of Four’s first principle is to program against...

Where do bugs fit into your iterations? This is a discussion I’ve had on many occasions with many different people. Laribee mentioned they work bugs as soon as they come in. I believe Bellware told me the same thing. Provost and Newkirk both told me they get bugs prioritized into the backlog along...

TDD and Hard-To-Test Areas I wanted to talk about the issues that people get when they begin working with TDD, the same issues that tend to make them abandon TDD after an initial experiment. Those are the 'hard-to-test' areas, the things production code needs to do, that those presentations and...

In my last post I offered a concise snapshot of how I'm practicing Behavior-Driven Development. Based on feedback, it was probably a little too concise and meta to provide any kind of valuable takeaways or discussion points, so I'm going to unpack what I said there over a few, more-specific posts...

I was running through a group talk I do at the recent Philly CodeCamp (which was a huge success by the way, special thanks to Brian Donahue for doing the heavy lifting in organizing an ALT.NET track) and we were ping pong pairing on the well known bank example. The first story we covered looked like...

I'm preparing a chunk of code for open source release in January. Among many other things it has a persistence layer wrapper with a "provider" for NHibernate, yet another validation framework, and a few goodies for building smart clients. It's not dissimilar to Ayende's Rhino Commons...

Over on the altnetconf list the question arose as to where you start when implementing agile within an organization. The first thing to bear in mind is that you probably want to avoid implementing all the practices, at the same time. This is likely to cause you to fail, because your attention will be...

I've had this post sitting in the queue forever. Not forever, but about 2 months. Before I start, I'd love to be able to go back and quote the mass amount of Alt.Net posts that have come out of CB over the last few days, but to be honest I don't have time to read them right now. I'm the...

I have to blog more often. Richmond Code Camp 3 When: Saturday, April 28 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM Where: ECPI Innsbrook Campus ( map ) Cost: FREE! Lunch provided! What: Code Camp is by developers, and for developers...it's an idea that started in the Eastern U.S. and has taken hold throughout various development...