Extreme Enthusiasm

Here are my slides for my talk at the Italian Agile Day 2010.

I’m happy about how the presentation turned out. I shared my hour with Carlo Bottiglieri. While I came only recently to realize that html templates are evil and objects rule, Carlo has been doing something like this for years. I expecially liked one thing he said:

These days you often hear people say that TDD is only good for the “domain model”. When I started learning TDD I didn’t know that :-) so I started using it for everything, including user interface, persistence and other infrastructure.

Some people say that they do TDD, but when they start a new project they do something different: choose technology, choose application servers, choose frameworks… TDD is meant to help us make decisions. If we make important decisions before starting with TDD, we lose a great deal of its power.

I’m quoting from memory and paraphrasing. I hope I got the meaning right.

Update: Carlo has published his slides.

Update The video for our session has been published.

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