Stories by KentBeck

Meta-meta-cognition: reflecting on mind-mapping my thinking habits

Does Pay-for-Performance Perform?

Tech compensation is biased toward the long-term. Fine if you have a long term

We aren’t owed an audience for our “feedback”

Monolith -> Services: A Sketchy Approach

If you do what you're told, you're paid too much

Career planning: recommendation letter from 2023

My experiment with clear and direct communication

Expand to Extract and Back

Test Desiderata 12/12: Tests should be inspiring

Test Desiderata 11/12: tests should predict production

My Memories of Larry Tesler, Parent of GUIs and Slayer of Modes

Tests Should be Specific [video]

Test Desiderata 9/12: compose the results of tests to reduce the cost of testing

Test Desiderata 8/12: Tests should be isolated from each other [video]

Test Desiderata 7/12: Automated. Warning, this is mostly a design issue

Tests should be deterministic, with a goofy Gusto counter-example

Outcome Over Output: Also Impact and Effort

Output over outcome: 1/2 (with memoji)

Test Desiderata 4/12 tests should be easy to write

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