Most of us have worked where there’s tremendous effort on planning, anticipating the needs of our customers, testing before release to our customers, re-thinking, re-considering and re-coding. To a developer, the only thing that may seem worse is when there’s none of this. Regardless, we expect to know, in advance …
Your application is slowing down and you can’t seem to speed it up. The code is a mess, and changes are taking longer and longer. You’re afraid to release new features for fear of introducing bugs throughout the system. The marketing and sales teams are frustrated by how long new …
The Crystal 3-step model consists of practices, principles, and personalization. The practices are what you know or learn how to do. The principles are the laws of design that inform you as to what works better, when. Personalization is adapting yourself to your situation, and your practices to your personality. …
This is a 5 minute video that takes you through the steps of getting CruiseControl.rb up and running with a Ruby on Rails project. [youtube lW4eSQa9M6A]
Continuous integration is a great way to keep your code base organized and well tested. But when a test suite takes so long to run that developers stop running it before every commit, they lose their constant feedback loop and quality drops. In this talk we’ll explore methods of speeding …
How to get started with TDD? Test-First Teaching is an innovative teaching approach that is gaining widespread adoption. Sarah Allen talks about how she teaches Ruby and Rails through a test-first approach. She demonstrates test-first teaching and then discuss how to turn the corner from simply making tests pass to …
