S01E40: Gary Bernhardt

Gary Bernhardt of Destroy All Software speaks about his passion for test driven development. 0:00 Introductions 5:05 Rewriting unit tests 3:04 Destroy All Software screencasts and the focus on testing 7:30 Frameworks for Rails testing 10:44 The Test Driven Development (TDD) cycle in Rails 12:38 The ‘London School’ vs. the ‘Detroit School’ of Test Driven Development 14:24 Unix and Gary’s saying “half-assed is good enough if it’s the right half of the ass” 17:13 How Destroy All Software screencasts fit into the screencast ecosystem 18:27 Gary’s passion for the software building cycle, Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Test Driven Development 20:49 Resources and techniques for learning Test Driven Development 22:39 Learning via experienced peers and user groups Links: Gary Bernhardt on GitHub and on Twitter Cascadia Ruby Conf Cleveland Ruby Brigade Destroy All Software: Screencasts for serious developers Extracting Domain Objects screencast Factory Girl Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests RSpec Seattle Ruby Brigade The Unix Chainsaw – Gary’s Cascadia Ruby Conf presentation