TDD Conference 2021 - Opening Ceremony by Alex Bunardzic

First International Test Driven Development took place on July 10th.

In this series, I will include every talk together with my notes and further reading.

Hopefully, a lot of readers will watch and rewatch the talks, as they are worth several reviews.

Let's start...

Opening Ceremony by Alex Bunardzic

Bio

Alex is a software engineering veteran with over 30 years of hands-on professional experience. A staunch advocate of Extreme Programming and TDD, Alex is currently leading DevOps teams by coaching them in TDD practices.

With a science background, Alex shows us how to build software by watching nature

TL;DR: Setting the stage for the TDD revolution, how did it all begin and where are we today with TDD.

Talk

My Personal notes

This is the first conference and the passing torch to younger generations of TDD enthusiasts.
We discovered TDD several years ago thanks to Kent Beck.
We evolved with James Grenning's Zombies Formula.
Ron Jeffries' Never let the code not be working.
And so on...

Why TDD?

TDD is not as easy to sell as clean code, agility, secure architectures.
We will consider it, but there's no time now.

TDD as a scientific method

Based on positive enforcement and short feedback loops.
Watching nature phenomena.
Everything happens as a response to what happened earlier.

The Four current problems when we try to plan

Uncertainty
Ambiguity
Incompleteness
Confusion

TDD Breakthroughs

TDD Removes non-productive code.
Less Debugger time.
No more manually run the app.
No different manual test scenarios, credentials, navigation, configuration, environments, etc.