Test Drive Test Driven Development
Clark Ching created a great little whitepaper describing a 1 hour presentation on how to do Test Driven Development, that even IT managers can understand. One of the keys to something like this is having the chutzpah to actually stand up in front of a group and do some test driven development live. Anyway, this presentation is something I should be able to show to my CEO and have him understand. Everything is done in Excel with very simple VBA macros. But, It should also be trivial to translate this from Excel/VBA to Open Office/OO Basic or Python.
I actually think this could be a great presentation for something like the Ann Arbor IT Zone, which caters more to the business end of IT and Software Development. But I don’t want managers going out and pushing Test Driven Development on their unwitting employees. It is something you have to value before you can practice it well.