There Are No Tests | SpeakerRate

There Are No Tests 4.26 http://spkr8.com/t/8253

Jeff Casimir 4.54

10 talks

Description:

The Ruby community is obsessed with testing, supposedly. In my experience about four out of five applications have either zero or completely ineffective test coverage.

Have the courage to change it. Whether your own projects or recovering someone else's mess, let's talk strategy:

Starting with metrics Refactoring for understanding Comment-driven development The unit testing foundation Bug reports are your best integration tests Focusing on value Rescue projects are popping up everywhere, and a strategic testing approach can save the day.

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Comments on this Talk

RandomGuy, 02 Sep 04:24 PM

Thought provoking talk. Thanks for inspiring us to do the hard work!

Cameron, 02 Sep 06:03 PM

This would make a really good keynote. Inspirational. As a geek, I'm always into technical depth, but as you state, most project problems aren't technical and it's obvious that you've been there in the trenches, fighting your way out of the abyss.

delbert, 03 Sep 04:14 PM

I don't think the presentation matched the description, but it was good. With the suit, you came across as a salesman/motivational speaker, coming in and trying to convince everyone to write tests... You did look sharp in the suit though, definitely the best dressed!

Abhinav, 04 Sep 12:58 AM

Jeff, your talk was excellent particularly because you find a good balance between the abstract high level concepts/philosophy with the details of process and tooling. This made it tangible and within reach for everyone - as well as putting the notion of a "rescue project" into context. Perfect timing for me to hear it, and humbly I came to very similar conclusions myself...wanted to catch up with you but that didn't transpire! Thanks mate...

Ryan McGeary, 06 Sep 03:26 AM

Jeff, I thought this was easily one of your best talks, and I did my best to help boost your rating on this talk. It rang home with me and my typical freelancing client work, and I think there's a ton to learn from this talk and discussions surrounding it.

If I were to guess at reasons why the average rating was not as high as my rating, I'd guess 3 things. 1) The title and description didn't exactly match the content of the talk -- though I liked the content and delivery of the talk more than the advertised title and description. 2) Not so many people can relate to the scenario of taking on a rescue project, nor have they done it enough times to see the patterns. 3) The suit. Ditch it.

justicefries, 12 Sep 02:04 PM

This was one of the best talks you've done. I don't think I've ever spent days really sitting down to synthesize something.

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