by Ryan
Wed, September 30 2009 11:08
Richard Hopton, coordinator for the Oxford nxgenug group will be delivering a fact packed talk on why we should write tests before code and how it improves the quality of the shipped code.
Hopefully he'll be able to help with the politics of developing. What politics you say? Well, when you tell your client that they can't have features 21 through 32 because you need the time to write tests and you can't deliver stable code in the time allotted. I've often heard people say they would rather hear the truth but when you say that their software build will take time to be up to quality, suddenly they are a software expert!
As Richard has been doing TDD for some time he knows how to get the quality angle across to clients, or perhaps he just hypnotises them.
I'll be doing a nugget (probably on sitemap generation but I'm not sure yet), more details can be found at the nxtgenug site.
So come along to Shire Hall on Monday the 19th of October 2009 just before 7pm for entertaining education, pizza and swag (including Telerik and Resharper licence giveaways).
