Videos

Video: A Second Look At Unit Testing

Roy Osherove — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:14:26 +0000

While at the msswit Conference in Ukraine, I spoke about all the things I had learned since the first version of my art of unit testing book. lots.

You can see the video here.

Video: Beautiful Builds

Roy Osherove — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:12:12 +0000

While at the MSSwit conference in Ukraine, I spoke about Beautiful Builds, and common patterns you can use to make your builds more coherent and maintainable.

You can view the video here.

Video: (part 1) Building a Go Game Engine with TDD and Pair Programming

Roy Osherove — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:42:05 +0000

A few days ago, a guy named Raymond Lim sent me an email with some questions about how to do something with TDD. He has been working on creating a game engine for “Go” game, for practice.

I thought it would make for a fun tdd pairing session, so we short the first part of that today.

Here’s part one, which is just less than 2 hours long, where we setup the environment, and get going with some simple engine rules. you get to see how engaging and and fun it can be to pair, and how important communication is. Also, you get to see a bunch of times where test-first saves our asses.

It’s not perfect, but it’s basically how I’d approach this problem in the real world.

Have fun, and let me know if you’d like to see the rest of the session(s) we haven’t shot yet. Thanks Raymond, for having an open mind, and a willingness to jump into the deep water!

What You Don't Know You Don't Know (Hebrew)

Roy Osherove — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:31:08 +0000

what_you_dont_know.mp4

In this video (which is in Hebrew) I talk to a crowd of young developers in Israel about the reasons for my leaving the .NET world - mostly - the idea of finding out the things you don’t know that you don’t know. How to get out of your comfort zone, and to find a bigger world outside your own bubble.

Most of the devs there are trapped in a Microsoft world, as I was.

Agile Israel - Intro to Agile (Hebrew)

Roy Osherove — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:50:50 +0000

During 2007 I did a talk at teh agile israel user group about introduction to agile development. It’s in hebrew, and there isn’t a lot of hebrew video material on this yet. Also, I didn’t want this to get lost in the sands of time, so I’m putting it up here for future generations..

agileisrael.part1.introtoagile.flv

Video: Elastic Leadership in software - InfoQ interview

Roy Osherove — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:04:04 +0000

Originally posted from my 5Whys blog.

During the recent QCON London 2011 Conference, Michael Hunger of Infoq interviewed me about what I later started describing as “Elastic Leadership” – The team leader changes her leadership style (dictator all the way through to coach) based on the current team stage.

You can see the full video interview here.

I look a bit tired, but I hope my message was clear.

How to do test reviews

Roy Osherove — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:38:40 +0000

Last year I did a talk at Oredev, showing examples of how I go over various pieces of open source projects, and what I look for when I review other people’s unit tests.

The full video is here.

Be a legacy code unit test ninja with Typemock Isolator

Roy Osherove — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:06:04 +0000

Let's Play TDD with James Shore

Roy Osherove — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:03:00 +0000

During my speaking at Oredev Conference, I got to meet James Shore, author of The Art of Agile book. I’ve known him only through reputation and his book, so when he offered to pair with him for a series of short Let’s Play TDD screencasts, I was excited to join in the fun.

It’s been a long while since I’ve done java, and I’m certainly not a mac guy (just getting into Ubuntu, actually), but it turned out to be quite interesting and entertaining. James is a smart guy and his views on how things get to be where they are are at the very least interesting. In fact, after looking more into it, I think he’s got some interesting comments hidden indie these screencasts. be sure to look for hidden gems.

The Episodes

Episode 48 – where James mostly shows me around the current spike he’s done so far, and we being to write the first test.
Episode 49 – where we try to write the first test for the new UI. This is really us finding the “pattern” in which to write the real unit test, and make it somewhat readable. We then somehow fail to make it pass.
Episode 50 – where we try to figure out why our test isn’t really working and make it work, but it’s still an integration style UI test
Episode 51- where we refactor the test into a somewhat workable unit test (removing UI related parts that are not needed)
Episode 52 – where get the production code working for real.

20 tools and tips that make me a better developer

Roy Osherove — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:57:04 +0000

In this session you will learn about the tools I use every day to speed up my work, to help me think better, to help me plan better and execute faster, to find errors faster, to automate easier and to be better at what I do. Bring a pen and paper - you’ll need them!

20ToolsAndTipsOredev.mp4

Top 20 tools and tips that make me a better developer - Roy Osherove from Øredev on Vimeo.

Recorded 2010-11-12 at Øredev - oredev.org