Author: Seb Rose
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“Common objections to TDD” slide deck, now uploaded
Last week I presented my session at ACCU 2012 to a packed audience in an overheated room. Here is the slide deck http://www.slideshare.net/sebrose/common-objections-to-tdd-and-their-refutations
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TDD Survey now closed
Thanks to all of you who contributed to the survey. I now have quite a bit of work collating your input, which I hope to finish before the end of April. I’ll then blog the results. I’ll also be presenting a session on “Objections To TDD” at the AC…
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HomePlug non-interoperability
TL;DR; Homeplug devices can be a great way to network your house, but they may not all interoperate smoothly. Like many people I live in a house that was built before networks were an essential part of family life. A common solution is WiFi, but t…
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Singleton, Design Patterns and Pattern Languages
Singleton has been a thorn in the side of proponents of design patterns ever since it saw the light of day in the GoF book. I recently came across this short presentation I wrote on the subject of Design Patterns in general and Singleton (and its …
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TDD Survey goes live
Last night my TDD Survey form went live at https://claysnow.co.uk/pages/tdd-questionnaire It’s a very basic, free-text form, designed to gather reasons why more people don’t practice TDD. After all, TDD is one of the foundational agile practices th…
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Fun with FitNesse
I’ve dabbled a bit with FitNesse over the years, but have recently concentrated more on unit testing (with GoogleTest and GoogleMock). I’m now working on a Java web app and FitNesse seems like just the thing for putting some acceptance tests in pl…
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Unit Testing, Test Driven Development and the Walking Skeleton
On May 7th 2011 I gave a well-attended session at DDD Scotland. The feedback was good – lowest scores were for the slide deck: Too Wordy. Undaunted, I’m posting the deck here in its full glory. (Thanks due to Owen Brown for the Claysnow logo)
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Rekursiv
Reprint of an article I wrote for CVu, the member’s journal of ACCU (http://www.accu.org): RekursivView more documents from Seb Rose.
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Stopping the Rot – Putting Legacy C++ Under Test
Check out this presentation, from my session at ACCU 2011, Oxford: Stopping the Rot – Putting Legacy C++ Under TestView more presentations from Seb Rose.
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First Lego League
This week the Newlands Primary School team completed their first challenge of the competition. They programmed the robot to release the syringe and get it back to base – with the robot returning to a well-defined position on the board. There’s sti…