[LRUG] March Meeting Testing Appendix

[Aanand Prasad]

Research into software engineering practices is thin on the ground, but there's a good blog collecting and discussing papers, including some on TDD, called It Will Never Work In Theory: http://www.neverworkintheory.org

I believe it's run by Greg Wilson, a University of Toronto professor who gave this (badass) talk at CUSEC a few years ago: http://vimeo.com/9270320 


On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 10:42, Murray Steele wrote:

> On 13 March 2012 00:15, Anthony Green <anthony.green at bbc.co.uk (mailto:anthony.green at bbc.co.uk)> wrote:
> > 
> > Links to further reading to some of the topics that were touched on tonight:
> > 
> > Pretotyping
> > -----------
> > http://www.pretotyping.org
> > 
> > Programmer Anarchy
> > ------------------
> > http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Leaner-Programmer-Anarchy
> > 
> > Growing Object Orientated Software Guided By Tests
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com
> > http://www.natpryce.com/articles.html
> > 
> > Behaviour Driven Development
> > ----------------------------
> > Liz Keogh's definitive guide:
> > http://www.slideshare.net/lunivore/behavior-driven-development-11754474
> > 
> > and writing about Chris Matts' notion of feature injection:
> > http://www.infoq.com/articles/pulling-power
> > 
> > JB Rainsberger on how to split features
> > http://www.jbrains.ca/permalink/how-youll-probably-learn-to-split-features
> > 
> > Modular Design
> > --------------
> > or how a solid code base can be arrived through design principles and judicious refactoring as Marcus pointed out
> > http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2011/05/11/xp-2011-j-b-rainsberger-a-simple-approach-to-modular-design
> > 
> > 
> > TDDing Spikes Away
> > ------------------
> > https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/tdding-spikes-away-with-rebase
> > 
> > 
> > Evaluating Customer Delight
> > ---------------------------
> > http://www.energizedwork.com/weblog/2012/02/stop-pushing-features-and-start-delighting-users
> > 
> > http://www.energizedwork.com/weblog/2012/02/measuring-purpose-measuring-customer-delight
> > 
> > 
> 
> Towards the end of the panel, Alex Speller (I think) mentioned a lack of empirical evidence about TDD and development methodologies in general.  I remember watching a talk about exactly this kind of thing late last year, but for the life of me I can't find the link (Chrome doesn't seem to have any of my browser history before the start of Jan).  I did a quick scan of Confreaks and InfoQ and a cursory google search, but nothing seems to ring a bell.  Chances are that it was a link I followed from a tweet by someone on here, so I'm hoping someone else remembers it and can dig up the link. 
> 
> Anyway, the point is that there is research in this area, I just don't think it's widely publicised, or particularly mature as a field.
> 
> Muz 
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