PaulSimmons

After many years experience of OO analysis, design, programming and testing it is refreshing to see that we simply had things in reverse order :

Test first, then program. Design by refactoring. It's just too easy. I finish the day with 'Tests Ok'. Hey, that rhymes.

 2003

 11/02 Treasurer and on committee for XpDay2. Ran Robocode workshop with Duncan and RetrofittingUnitTests? with SteveF.


 9/02 Test-led design workshop at DrKW? with Phil Wells.


 5/02 XP2002? Paper on retrofitting unit tests to legacy code, joint with Steve Freeman.
 OT2002 proposals didn't work out.


 12/01 XPDay - GQT and Kick-startXP session.
 October Sigs event cancelled.
 08/01 Invited to do TracerBullets at SIGS in October.  Tom and I need a new name for it though ...
 06/01 Bought a LegoVisionCommand?.  
 05/01 XP2001, my prize for running ExtremeLegoWorkshop? for global mgmt last year at DrKW?.
 04/01 OT2001, of course.
 02/01 Trial ExtremeLegoWorkshop? with Planning story board (thanks to TimMackinnon for the idea).
 01/01 Kick off BestPractice? in DrKW? (was DrKB).
 10/00 Went to ApacheCon? Europe.  Discovered JavaApacheTurbineProject
 10/00 Submitted TracerBullets for OT2001 jointly with Tom Ayerst.
 9/00 Ran ExtremeHourWorkshopAtDrKB? with great help from TimMackinnon, 
 followed by an ExtremeLegoWorkshopAtDrKB in XPAtDrKBInHongKong.  
 7/00 Ran 3x ExtremeLegoWorkshopAtDrKB as per OT2000? but in-house.
 6/00 Enhancements to existing s/w, using stories and junit.
 5/00 3 day offsite in Bangalore, playing with WAP.
 5/00 Fun applying junit to EJB.
 4/00 Introduced VisualAge to current team (I think they like it! "Wow its got a debugger").
 4/00 Introducing Junit to untested territory at DrKB.
 3/00 OT2000?, Tim, Oli and I ran an XP workshop with Lego Mindstorms
 3/00 Discovered RefactoringHeaven? courtesy of Martin Fowler.
 2/00 Ventured into the land of cppunit TestingJNI.
 10/99 Ran short 3 month project using some of XP techniques.
 6/99 Finished XP project with Tim and Oli.
 2/99 Converted at OT99? (to XP, of course)