Kent Beck On The FIRST Testing Frameworks, TDD, Waterfall & MORE | The Engineering Room Ep. 16

In this episode of the Engineering Room, Dave Farley and Kent Beck have a wide-ranging discussion about the return of waterfall development in software, TDD, Software Design and lots of other things along the way. Kent Beck is the first signatory of the Agile Manifesto. He is the author of the industry-changing book "Extreme Programming Explained". Kent popularised Continuous Integration and TDD and wrote the first version of xUnit, the unit testing framework that has informed the design of unit testing frameworks ever since. It is hard to imagine people who aren't familiar with Kent Beck's work, but even if that is the case, his work has had an impact on how you think about, and practice software development and software engineering. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🖇 LINKS: 🔗 "TCR (Test && Commit || Revert)", Kent Beck: ➡️    • TCR test && commit || revert -- Rope in Py...   🔗 "Tidy First", Kent Beck: ➡️ https://tidyfirst.substack.com 🔗 Small Steps - "Explore, Expand, Extract", Kent Beck: ➡️    • Video   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⭐ PATREON: Join the Continuous Delivery community and access extra perks & content! JOIN HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/ContinuousDeliveryPatreon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👕 T-SHIRTS: A fan of the T-shirts I wear in my videos? Grab your own, at reduced prices EXCLUSIVE TO CONTINUOUS DELIVERY FOLLOWERS! Get money off the already reasonably priced t-shirts! 🔗 Check out their collection HERE: ➡️ https://bit.ly/3vTkWy3 🚨 DON'T FORGET TO USE THIS DISCOUNT CODE: ContinuousDelivery _____________________________________________________ 📚 BOOKS: 📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 and NOW as an AUDIOBOOK available on iTunes, Amazon and Audible. 📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx 📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines 📖 "Test Driven Development: By Example (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series), Kent Beck" ➡️ https://amzn.to/2NcqgGh 📖 "Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change", Kent Beck ➡️ https://amzn.to/3K5fhg6 📖 "Implementation Patterns (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck))", Kent Beck ➡️ https://amzn.to/3K4VWvz 📖 "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns", Kent Beck ➡️ https://amzn.to/3JKyfYg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🙏The Engineering Room series is SPONSORED BY EQUAL EXPERTS Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 ______________________________________________________ CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome 0:30 Introducing Kent Beck: Reputation and Repetition 3:15 Unrealised Potential of SW Dev 4:34 Is Waterfall is Back? 8:17 “Wouldn’t it be easier if you did it right first time?!” 9:40 From Agile to Infinity 12:03 The Value and Discomfort of Discovery 14:12 Focus on Learning 16:25 Rediscovery of TDD 20:52 Represent Tests in the Source Code (“one of my best ideas”) 23:52 “Have you tried TCR yet” 27:37 TDD improves design, specification and developer well-being 30:04 Separate Behaviour and Structure 33:50 Small Steps and Get Feedback in 10 seconds 38:43 The Succession Problem - we don’t talk about it 42:08 There’s Never One Way to do Things 47:27 Designing for Complexity and Change 49:34 The Trade-Off between Predicted and Revealed Value 50:46 Motivation to Write a New Book Series 53:34 Software Design is an Exercise in Human Relationships 57:22 Writing “Tidy First?” and other books 1:06:16 Conclusion - Try Stuff!