PaulSimmons

After my several years experience of OO analysis, design, programming and testing it is refre shing 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.

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.

• May/June 2005 - Recovering from back op.
• TheHolyGrailProject was thought of during one of those inside-out moments.

What's he been up to?

• SPA2005 With inspiration from RobWestgeest http://www.agidem.com we thought about the reasons why UnitTests are as they are, and ran a session on RightSizingUnitTests? which explored the subject further.
• OT2004 TracerBulletsReloaded and probably slightly improved. Look fwd to seeing what the OT community think.
• 02/04 The little BenjaminSimmons project, on time and in budget.
• 12/03 XPDay3: Prepared but missed presenting TracerBulletsReloaded. RobWestgeest and DuncanPierce did a good job I hear. Here's the TracerBulletsReloadedWriteup.
• 11/03 Benelux XP: TracerBulletsReloaded in conjunction with RobWestgeest. Here's the BeneluxTracerBulletsWriteUp
• summer/03 Two projects underway: (1) a little BenjaminSimmons (eta 9 months etc.. had all those jokes) (2) project thing at work, mega busy.
• 02/03 Finally finally gone broadband thanks to http://www.zen.co.uk. Life will never be the same again.
• 01/03 Ran Robocode workshop in Denmark with Duncan.

• XpDay2. Robocode workshop with Duncan and RetrofittingUnitTests? with SteveF.
• 11/02 Treasurer and on committee for XpDay2.
• 10/02 Evening lego workshop. Never again, forgot how impossible it is to run in less than 3 hours!
• 9/02 Test-led design workshop at DrKW with PhilWells.
• 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)