Stories by KentBeck

Test Desiderata 3/12 tests should be written to be read

Latency/throughput tradeoffs, illustrated with coffee

Test Desiderata 1/12: tests should be sensitive to behavior [video]

Decisions, Decisions or Why Baskets of Options Dominate

Publishing on Medium, with the stats they don't make obvious

Fast and Slow in 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract

Software Test Desiderata

Understanding legacy code with TCR (test && commit || revert)

3X: Explore/Expand/Extract at Facebook

Software design is also about relationships

Curiosity as a Service – Literally

“Testing” software design. A short feedback loop for design

Software Design is Human Relationships: Waiters, Changers, and Sufficiency

Development requires behavior and structure changes, setting up human conflict

To simplify review, have diffs change behavior or structure but not both

Narrowing an Interface in Tiny Steps

Buy Effort and Sell Value

Writing a book, still the same pain 15 years later

Delay Chokes Innovation, illustrated with a poker tournament

Objections are goals

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