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