Steve Freeman

There are some upsides to the recent massive data loss from the UK’s tax authority.
First, even though there was a delay, they did admit the loss and someone senior took the rap. There are too many organisations where this kind of news would never be allowed out.
Second, this breach has been large enough to make […]

Thanks to Naresh Jain I’ll be presenting a tutorial/worshop on TDD with Mock Objects at Agile India this Sunday, 25th.
Presenting this far from home is still a thrill for me and, providing I can hold up against the jet lag, I’m very interested to see how our material will be received.

Here’s a great example from Robert Cringley of why crisp requirements aren’t. At least not in almost any system that’s likely to be useful. I think it’s worth quoting the relevant part at length, there’s some other stuff about Google and mobile phones in the original article. Hands up everyone who’s worked on a system […]

As you discovered when you were the project, your nerd’s focus can be deliciously overwhelming, but it will stop. Once a nerd believe he fully knows how a system works, the challenge to understand ceases to exist and he moves on in search of The Next High.

While I don’t know who you are or why […]

Michael Feathers has kindly cited Nat Pryce and me in his recent discussion about how asynchronous messages should be. He talks about the approach to coding that we like to take, which informed our approach to jMock. I love Ralph Johnson’s description of this as the “mystical view” of O-O.

I think both of us were […]