Speaker: Bartosz Bańkowski
Talk: “Pitfalls of TDD Adoption”

Bartosz Bańkowski
Poland, @SabreHoldings

Bartosz is founder and leader of Polish Agile User Group, active contributor of open source software (Mockito, Mockito-Python). He has been working in Agile projects since 2005. He provides TDD trainings on major universities in Krakow for Computer Science students (since 2007).

Talk: “Pitfalls of TDD Adoption”

Like with every technique there is a certain cost to introduce Test-Driven Development.

Based on the authors’ experiences in coaching and teaching TDD the most common traps and problems will be presented. You will discover typical test smells and the ways to avoid them. Author will show code samples to illustrate the topic and will share his observations, which include: the easiest and the hardest parts in TDD adoption by beginners, how programming proficiency differences impact the adoption process, how to avoid common issues.