by Carlos Ble | Sep 1, 2015 | Agile, Retrospectivas, Software Development
The 5th Socrates Conference in Germany has been my first continental Socrates Conference (I’ve been to UK twice plus another one in the Canaries). What a mind blowing unconference! I got even more value from Socrates than I expected! this has been the biggest in...
by Carlos Ble | Jul 23, 2015 | Clean code, Test Driven Development, Testing
Among other qualities good tests should be easy to read, quick to understand. When the test requires complex data structures to be sent to the SUT or to be part of a stubbed answer, it takes longer to read. Moreover those structures use to evolve as the production...
by Carlos Ble | Jul 1, 2015 | Agile, Software Development
The title of this post is redundant, pair programming is already a productivity technique. That’s my understanding or pair programming not just two people sitting together. Two people may code together for learning or mentoring purposes, however we pair for...
by Carlos Ble | Apr 19, 2015 | Agile, BDD
I had the pleasure of speaking at CukeUp! this year (2015), the fifth edition of Cucumber’s conference which is more about BDD than Cucumber itself, although there are always updates on the state of the tool (this year Matt released version 2.0 during his talk!)...
by Carlos Ble | Jan 21, 2015 | Agile, aida, BDD
Este post habla de dos de los valores de XP: Simplicidad y Feedback. Fundamentales y habitualmente olvidados. Cuando escribimos software o dibujamos una interfaz de usuario, estamos dando forma a una solución concreta de las muchas que puede tener un problema. Al...
by Carlos Ble | Jan 1, 2015 | aida, Retrospectivas, Software Development
Últimas horas del 31 de Diciembre de 2014. Para millones de personas es un día de celebración. Aproximádamente el 75% de la población cambia de año cada primero de enero siguiendo el calendario gregoriano, aunque solo unos pocos podemos hacer una fiesta. Para muchos...
