Course code: DYNON-1

Years with company: 3

Years programming: 25

Primary programming language: C/C++

Other programming languages: not significant recently

Unit test harnesses: only proprietary setups

Something else: Much of the code I have been working on here uses relies heavily on OpenGL. Other areas have relied a lot on communication between threads. In both cases I have struggled with how to test this well with unit tests with a reasonable effort.

Test practice now: Mostly just ad-hoc, manual testing.

Target system: Linux based embedded system

Dev tools: GNU and Qt Creator

Build time: 1-5 minutes

Coding standard: not sure what to say about this in one line

Function too long: no comment

Code reviews: few and far between

Code time: 50

Test time: 20

Debug time: 30

Favorite thing about dev: Solving interesting problems.

Least favorite thing about dev: Debugging poorly written code or mysterious bugs that often appear to be problems with things like the OpenGL video drivers we are stuck with.

Tdd knowledge: Ideally, tests are written before implementation. I believe the idea is that this will result in a more thought out design and better coding practices.

Why are you attending: I would be hopelessly lost if TDD is widely used here. It does seem interesting if I can figure out how to do it without putting in a lot more effort than now. I expect it will discourage some of the complex things I do that usually create problems.