• Course: Test-Driven Development
  • Date entered: 2013-05-17 15:22:08 UTC
  • Course rating: excellent
  • Most useful learnings:
  • Concepts v exercises: good balance
  • Presentation v discussion: Good balance
  • Course improvements:
  • Exercise rating: very good
  • Exercise improvements: Pair programming worked well. Swapping partners also worked well.
  • Instructor comments: Great use of post-its to gather feedback instead of relying on people to raise their hands.
  • Better prepared: Much better
  • Start tomorrow: No; but I'll certainly work on getting management buy-in. Bosses aren't proactive. They are always more concerned with adding new features than with minimizing test and debug time.
  • Challenges to applying: Getting management buy-in seems even more challenging than tackling pieces of the massive legacy codebase.
  • Other comments:
  • Legacy code workshop: Yes
  • Recommend to others: yes
  • Quote permission: yes