I had Damien on my #RemotePairProgramming series and we also discussed about pair programming lessons: what we both learned about this practice. We talk about our pairing session, but also about our experience with pair programming in various situations.
Microservices are a hype. It made programmers more aware of methods to modularise large monolithic systems, because of stricter component boundaries.
BugsZero Kata is something that Johan Martinsson created in the awake of the movement BugsZero. It is the idea that bugs are optional, and we can improve the system that bugs exist less and less.
Tests should tell a story, and not be some complicated array of technical terms that almost nobody understands. This is our focus during the next #RemotePairProgramming session with Bastien David.
We call our tests paragraphs and our test class a story. Because we feel in a flow, we could go on writing tests that tell a story for a few hours and still discover what it an easy to understand story by the end user: the programmer.
Emily Bache and I have a remote pair programming session. The focus in working on the Approval Tests with Lift Kata that Emily created. We use Approval Tests to check each step in the progress of the implementation. Fast feedback and continuous communication are a good recipe for a quality pairing session.
About approval tests with lift kata. The code already has a starting point which is very useful for getting to work fast. There is a printer that can print the lift status in ASCII art format. We start from this minimal start-up and add approval tests in a TDD approach with small steps and incremental thinking. We add production code step by step as we add the tests.
