• Course: Test-Driven Development
  • Date entered: 2012-10-05 11:14:13 UTC
  • Course rating: excellent
  • Most useful learnings:
  • Concepts v exercises: good balance
  • Presentation v discussion: Good balance
  • Course improvements:
  • Exercise rating: excellent
  • Exercise improvements: "Good increments of skill and testing; good ramping up of difficulty and forcing concepts; like ""ok; now "
  • Instructor comments: I thought you could maybe stress the unsustainability of manual testing more in the start of the course; and impress upon devs that not testing is a false economy. Maybe that might get them on-side faster?
  • Better prepared: Much better
  • Start tomorrow: Maybe. In the next couple weeks I'm working on integrating someone a driver written by a different team onto our platform; not the best time for TDD since I'm not responsible for the module. However; I will look for chances to use TDD when I next need to bug-fix or fresh develop.
  • Challenges to applying: Acceptance from other developers; especially those not working at our site. Incrementally applying to our massive legacy code base; especially on modules that are not under our direct control.
  • Other comments:
  • Legacy code workshop: Yes
  • Recommend to others: yes
  • Quote permission: yes