About this episode

Dave Farley interviews Steve Freeman about the impact of Test-Driven Development on software architecture.

Join Dave Farley — co-author of Continuous Delivery (Jolt Award winner), author of Modern Software Engineering , and inventor of the CD Deployment Pipeline - and guest Steve Freeman in this fascinating episode. Steve is a pioneer of the software craftsmanship movement and a foundational figure in the global Agile community. He is the co-author of the seminal book Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests , a winner of the Gordon Pask Award, and the co-creator of JMock. With a PhD from Cambridge, Steve has spent decades refining the "London School" of TDD, shifting testing from a verification step to a profound tool for architectural design. ---------------------------------------- Only Patreon supporters get to see the full length video episodes of "The Engineering Room” Sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/c/continuousdelivery LinkedIn Steve Freeman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevefreeman/ Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from…

People in this episode

Host: Dave Farley

Guest: Steve Freeman

Topics covered

• Software Architecture
• Test-Driven Development
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Craftsmanship
• Continuous Delivery

Keywords

• TDD
• software architecture
• Agile
• software craftsmanship
• Continuous Delivery
• Steve Freeman
• Dave Farley

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Equal Experts, Cambridge

Books & works: Continuous Delivery, Modern Software Engineering, Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

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