If you find the opinions I express in this post to be radical, you will find the follow-up outrageous. The Startup pattern, larger units, fewer test doubles and a bit of BDD thinking. If you have not yet read Andrew Lock’s post Should you unit-test API/MVC controllers in ASP.NET Core? then I suggest you read it without undue delay. In this post, Andrew brilliantly…

Martin Fowler’s Object Mother Pattern Revisited — Many developers and testers think they are doing behaviour driven development when they use Gherkin tools, such as Cucumber, SpecFlow or BDDfy. But a tool alone does not do the trick. Why do you think the inventors of BDD stopped using Cucumber and Jbehave? I claim that BDD is not…

When I promised to write about how to reduce friction from developers’ work day, I am sure that most expected me to focus on what non-developers ought to do in order to improve the working lives of developers. But let’s face it, the major cause of friction, crappy legacy code…

It has been my plan for a while to start writing about all the things that make a software developer happy and active — or loyal and productive, if you prefer to see it from a manager’s perspective. When I am asked about my opinion on the topic, I usually…