• Course: TDD for Embedded C
  • Date entered: 2016-04-01 16:28:20 UTC
  • Course rating: Excellent
  • Most useful learnings: Getting the skinny on TDD in theory and practice.
  • Concepts v exercises: Good balance
  • Presentation v discussion: Good balance
  • Course improvements:
  • Exercise rating: Very Good
  • Exercise improvements:
  • Instructor comments: Knowledgable peppered with humor. And also very practical about using TDD - wasn't religious about it.
  • Better prepared: Much better
  • Start tomorrow: Tomorrow's Saturday! Probably not right away b/c marketing breathing down neck for a last minute feature to legacy code, which would 3x the effort if started with TDD.
  • Challenges to applying: Legacy code. Too many concrete classes being passed around. Getting functional management to back up engineers when we provide estimates that include TDD ramp-up effort, unit testing, etc.
  • Other comments:
  • Legacy code workshop: Yes
  • Recommend to others: Yes
  • Quote permission: Yes