Something I hear often: “I’d love to go on one of your courses, but my boss won’t pay for it”.
Codemanship’s new Essential Code Craft training workshops are aimed at software developers who are self-funding their professional growth. If your employer won’t invest in you, perhaps you can invest in you. (Businesses and other VAT-registered entities should visit codemanship.co.uk for details of corporate training for teams.)
For nearly 30 years, Test-Driven Development has been the technical core of successful agile software development.
Teams have shortened delivery lead times dramatically, while actually improving the reliability of their releases, and lowering the cost of changing software using TDD.
And TDD is proving to be not just compatible with AI-assisted software development, but essential.
In this introductory workshop, you will learn how to solve problems working in TDD micro-cycles, rigorously specifying desired software behaviour using tests, writing the simplest solution code to pass those tests, and refactoring safely to enable a simple, clean design to emerge.
The emphasis will be on learning by doing, with succinct practical instruction and guidance from a 25-year+ TDD practitioner and teacher.
You will work in pairs in your chosen programming language, swapping through Continuous Integration into a shared GitHub* repository after each TDD cycle, reinforcing the relationship between TDD, refactoring, version control and CI.
When you register, you’ll be asked to list up to 3 programming languages you’re comfortable working in (e.g., Java, Ruby, Go), and I’ll use that to pair folks as best I can up for the exercise. (Tip: put at least one popular one on the list – we may struggle to find you a pairing partner for Prolog)
I’ll demonstrate in either Java, Python, JS or C#, depending on which of those is listed most often by registrants.
* Requires an active personal GitHub account
This workshop includes a 15-minute break
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