Steve Freeman

Tom White shows that he understands the descriptive aspects of what we were trying to do with jMock

For the last month or so, I’ve been teaching rather than working on a development team. I’m glad I did it, and now I’m glad that at least the lectures are over.

One surprise, though, was how nice it was to have control over my time again. I put in a lot of hours to […]

Simon Baker has written up the XpDay session that Nat Pryce and I ran called Before Iteration Zero. Thanks

Simon’s also written up my session with Mike Hill on Storytelling with FIT

Brian’s blog entry on A thought on mocking filesystems shows that he understands the point.

One of the potential risks with mock-based testing is of simply reproducing the implementation of the Code Under Test, but that only really gets in the way if you can’t change the collaborators you’re mocking. The point of the exercise is […]

Sheffield University Computer Science has a course in which the students get to work at a real company writing real software for real customers using XP. The fourth years coach the third years, and the whole thing is self-funding. A great way to get experience of the whole lifecycle in a safe environment. via […]

Now it’s my turn to write about XP2005

I have to admit to spending most of my time chatting to people I hadn’t seen in a while. I know I missed some good sessions and interesting people, but I did catch up with some old faces.

Mike Hill has started something called Surprise. It’s to be […]

I was working with a colleague on cleaning up an ugly corner of our codebase. We weren’t quite sure of the best solution, so we were doing some exploratory refactoring. The session was getting a little tense until we discovered that we had different approaches to this activity. Once we’d clarified this, we picked one […]

I’ve been converting my soon-to-be-ex (1) team to the XP approach to comments (i.e. don’t, fix the code instead). We had a problem that really had to have a line of comment to explain it (some hackery to stop Visual Studio complaining). Peter Clary noticed that when there are very few comments, the ones you […]