A Review of Pair Progamming with Ben - and the Recording
We'd hoped to work up an approach to developing a validation framework by starting with specific examples and refactoring to a solution rather than trying to guess it upfront, but there just wasn't time to go that far.
I do think, however, that it gave a really good sense of how pair programming can be useful, and how to get started taking little steps to Red-Green-Refactor in a TDD style. We also used BDD style naming for the tests and mentioned how it would work really well with some kind of agiledox port.
Neithe Ben nor I are experienced with either pairing or TDD, but I think that watching other people starting to come to terms with a new paradigm was helpful - it's certainly the kind of presentation that might have helped me to get started with TDD earlier.
Any input appreciated, as I think the interplay is actually a lot better than just a single presenter, so I'm thinking this is something we might want to do again.
Thoughts?!





Otherwise, I have never done TDD, and this was an outstanding introduction to the topic. Both you and Ben did a really nice job of striking a balance between explaining the subject and moving the talk along.
@Ezra, glad you liked it.