• Course: Test-Driven Development
  • Date entered: 2013-07-02 08:37:57 UTC
  • Course rating: very good
  • Most useful learnings:
  • Concepts v exercises: good balance
  • Presentation v discussion: Good balance
  • Course improvements:
  • Exercise rating: very good
  • Exercise improvements: The course exercises chose simple and useful problems (E.g. the circular FIFO; the light controller)
  • Instructor comments: He was friendly; polite; and professional. He was also accommodative of personal issues.
  • Better prepared: Much better
  • Start tomorrow: Yes; I already wrote unit tests with the gtest/gmock framework during the training workshop
  • Challenges to applying: Much of the code I work on is already written; and TDD wasn't applied. We are developing enhancements. TDD will be much easier applied when it is included from the very beginning of development.
  • Other comments: I think Schlumberger should also pay special attention to who it sends to this training program. I felt there were a few people there; who for example; needed help with TDD on FPGA; a topic which appears to be still nascent in its maturity. My point is; a student spending a week in this program should be able to go back and use TDD; and not just wonder what he did for a week :)
  • Legacy code workshop: Yes
  • Recommend to others: yes
  • Quote permission: yes