I’m going to be doing a talk on Practical TDD at the Inland Empire .Net Users’ Group in the near future. We’ve had TDD talks in the past but they have been more overviews with only a little code. I plan to take the group through craeting a simple blog engine from scratch completely using TDD. I hope that this will give a real great example of how to develop a project using TDD.
The presentation was supposed to be in August, but as that lands directly on my 8 year wedding anniversary and our son’s 3rd birthday I had to postpone it. I don’t like sleeping on the couch. 🙂 James Johnson, the president, is still working on where to put my talk, so I’ll post an update when that happens.
Anyway, in the spirit of getting ready for this talk I’ll be writing a few blog posts on some great TDD resources I’ve found.
Recently Roy Osherove, the author of the Art of Unit Testing, started doing actual TDD code reviews on his blog. These are great! It’s one thing to read a blogger’s posts with their thoughts and opinions on topics but seeing Roy go through a live code review in a video is just spectacular. It’s like getting a chance to sit in on a session with Roy.
While he admits that he’s a little harsh on the Nerd Dinner review, having done it at 2am, I think he is spot on in his findings. Of course, Roy is a very experienced veteran in this area so we’d think nothnig less. However, the points Roy makes are great and he really brings to light what good and bad examlpes of TDD he sees in the app.
I can’t wait to check out the rest of the videos.
He offers to review code that is sent in. I’m not sure I’ll be brave enough to do that, but if I’m not that would indicate a smell in my code, wouldn’t it? 🙂 Maybe when I get my talk together I’ll pass my code on to Roy to review prior to my presentation. That would really give me a great resource to make sure my presentation is sound and a little more authority on this topic.