Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 3rd and 4th, 2009
Llewellyn Falco
spun laboratories incorporated
About Llewellyn
As an Agile software consultant Llewellyn Falco routinely
finds himself working with companies undergoing
transformations who have hired him to improve their
employees' ability to deal with messy, orphaned, and
otherwise ugly code. He is the inventor of approval tests
(www.approvaltests.com) and you can get a pretty good
idea of him form this blog post:
http://tinyurl.com/6aklzv
Are you happy at work? Are you proud of the code you are working with? This session seeks to inspire engineers to adopt a sense of pride of ownership toward code they are working with. The long term benefits of working with code that continually grows better and easier to work on are almost too numerous it list. Take a ride with Llewellyn & Woody as we explore the road to happy code. One of the main tenants of agile is the ability to respond to change. This talk will focus on how to get malleability back into your existing code through the eXtreme programming practice of Refactoring.
Most people have already discovered that code is easier and faster to write with unit tests. But writing those tests can take so much time and effort. Come learn how to write tests quick and fast, so you can get on to what we really want to be doing: coding