• Course: TDD for Embedded C
  • Date entered: 2015-11-13 11:59:40 UTC
  • Course rating: Excellent
  • Most useful learnings: VERY small steps during the write-test fail, code, test pass cycle Exploding Mocks. Difference between mock (expectations) and stub/fake.
  • Concepts v exercises: Good balance
  • Presentation v discussion: Good balance
  • Course improvements:
  • Exercise rating: Excellent
  • Exercise improvements: I can't think of any obvious improvement.The Dojo exercises are very good. And the method of James' tidying up each step and we all re-start from the same place each time. Prevents people getting further and further behind. Also James' monitoring of our progress remotely and then targetting people to help them is excellent.
  • Instructor comments: Very good. Concise, experienced enthusiastic professional engineer who knows the world we work in, and who is very good at getting new concepts across. Also a fun personable guy!
  • Better prepared: Much better
  • Start tomorrow: Yes!
  • Challenges to applying: Buy-in from management. Technically we can do it, and I am convinced we should. I think we may move slowly towards this method - possibly to go hand in hand with Agile, if we could adopt that. That hurdle is the biggest to climb since requirements capture is a big issue for us.
  • Other comments:
  • Legacy code workshop: Yes
  • Recommend to others: Yes
  • Quote permission: Yes