Canada on Rails: Steve Baker

_I think this is his blog

  • Full time Rails developer.
  • I’m good at talking, but bad at slides. Lack of profanity or pornography in the slides.
  • TDD is about Specification not Verification

Chai is good. Makes the body feel warm and my brain feel cushioned

  • When changing your software change the tests first

He recapped a lot of what was covered in the testing chapter of the Rails book

  • Tests mean that while you are writing your main code you know what to do next.
  • Writing Ruby Support for Selenium

Q&A

  • lot’s of questions about TDD and if it was really useful and how to apply to their situation.
  • How to get TDD working at his job: “I just made sure everyone knew I thought they were stupid for not writing tests.” Humm sounds like someone I know (*cough* Doug cough).

Listening to people having a hard sell to get their bosses to allow TDD makes me glad to work at RS

April 13, 2006 (5 years, 10 months ago) | Tags: canada-on-rails




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