DaveAstels

Long time exponent of XP and author / contributor for a couple of books.

Home page: http://www.saorsa.com/

Did I write that? -- DaveAstels

No I didn't! Aha! Becasue I wrote this one: DavidAstels. Anyway both are me... and I like this one better actually. Stuff below is from the other me that now just forwards here.

OK, so I'm not a Londoner, or a Brit (at least not for a couple generations), I am a member of the Commonwealth, though (being a second generation Canadian). Despite the rather tenuous connection, I like hanging out here on occasion anyway.

BTW, I would not object to spending time in London if anyone's looking for some TDD training or coaching?

--DaveAstels

David Astels (who prefers to be called Dave) is the Master Software Craftsman (if you're a geek) and CEO (if you're a banker of lawyer) of Saorsa Development, Inc. (http://www.saorsa.com)

Dave is a coauthor of "A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming" published by Prentice Hall, editor (and primary author so far) of the Test-driven Development edition of The Coad Letter (http://www.thecoadletter.com). Dave's also working on another book, this one focusing on TDD for Java programmers.

Belated update (Feb 18, 2003): The book is called "Test-driven Development: A Practical Guide", will weigh in at just over 550 pages, and is pre-orderable at Amazon now.

Dave was at XP2001 purely as an attendee. At Xp2002 he gave a tutorial (XP41) and presented a paper on "Refactoring with UML". XP2003? Stay tuned... there are plans afoot