Course: TDD for Embedded C++

Date entered: 2019-08-22 22:38:11 UTC

Course rating: Good

Most useful learnings: The idea of writing tests before code and making minimal changes to make tests fail/pass

Concepts v exercises: Good balance

Presentation v discussion: Good balance

Course improvements:

Exercise rating: Good

Exercise improvements: The exercises had a good balance between how complex they were and how they illustrated the TDD concepts. I would have preferred to have some more exercises though. The exercise experience could be a little better if the coding environment used for training can be improved a little bit to feel more like a native editor.

Instructor comments: The instructor is an expert in his field and answered all the questions that were asked.

Better prepared: Moderately

Start tomorrow: Yes. Adding tests prior to refactoring in the workshop gave me a lot of confidence during the actual refactor and I like the idea of making small changes so that there is no need to debug. I feel this approach would be very helpful in the current work I'm doing.

Challenges to applying: Making TDD a habit will take deliberate practice and often times I work with tests which take a long time to run.

Other comments:

Legacy code workshop: Yes

Recommend to others: Yes

Quote permission: No