TDD Conference 2021: Opening Ceremony by Alex Bunardzic

The first International Test Driven Development took place on July 10th

In this series, I will include every talk together with my notes and further reading.

Hopefully, a lot of readers will watch and rewatch the talks, as they are worth several views.

Let's start...

Bio

Alex is a software engineering veteran with over 30 years of hands-on professional experience. A staunch advocate of Extreme Programming and TDD, Alex is currently leading DevOps teams by coaching them in TDD practices.

With a science background, Alex shows us how to build software by watching nature

TL;DR: Setting the stage for the TDD revolution, how did it all begin and where are we today with TDD.

Talk

My Personal notes

• This is the first conference and the passing torch to younger generations of TDD enthusiasts.
• We discovered TDD several years ago thanks to Kent Beck.
• We evolved with James Grenning's Zombies Formula.
• Ron Jeffries' Never let the code not be working.
• And so on...

Why TDD?

• TDD is not as easy to sell as clean code, agility, secure architectures.
• We will consider it, but there's no time now.

TDD as a scientific method

• Based on positive enforcement and short feedback loops.
• Watching nature phenomena.
• Everything happens as a response to what happened earlier.

The Four current problems when we try to plan

• Uncertainty
• Ambiguity
• Incompleteness
• Confusion

TDD Breakthroughs

• TDD Removes non-productive code.
• Less Debugger time.
• No more manually run the app.
• No different manual test scenarios, credentials, navigation, configuration, environments, etc.

Speaker Links

• Twitter @alexbunardzic
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• LinkedIn @alexbunardzic
• @Alex Bunardzic

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