--- title: "TDD workshop was great!" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/19/tdd-workshop-was-great.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/19/tdd-workshop-was-great.html" published: "2004-05-19T15:44:00" updated: "2004-05-19T15:44:00" tags: ["Agile Related"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I define success by “interesting”, “learning experience” and “fun”. all 3 were present there. That's what happens when you put 9 smart people together in the same room, especially two on each machine (1 left hanging.…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # TDD workshop was great! By Roy Osherove May 19, 2004 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related) **Historical article** · Originally published May 19, 2004; technical details may be outdated. I define success by “interesting”, “learning experience” and “fun”. all 3 were present there. That's what happens when you put 9 smart people together in the same room, especially two on each machine (1 left hanging. next time we'll correct that). The meeting included a lecture on what is unit testing, working with NUnit and more about the “why” of it. After that we had a hands on lab where people sat in pairs and wrote a simple application that got more and more complex as the training continued. the objective was to show how unit tests help with a dynamically changing code base. And it it. People seemed to “get” it. At the end we all sat down and had a little discussion on some of the aspects of what we just did and what we **didn't** do. some conclusions: - there will **definitely** be another workshop for those who missed out - possibly a “TDD - a little more in-depth“ session, talking about database testing and other nuances. - You should all register to the mailing list I've set up. : [IL-agile-Dev](http://groups.yahoo.com/group/il-agile-dev/). we'll talk about some of the things we did there, and most importantly, about some of the problems we face today with implementing TDD in the organization. One more thing. I was directed to this interesting article today that talk about a case study of implementing TDD and the benefits that followed (including some actual numbers): [Integrating Unit Testing Into A Software](http://www.agilealliance.org/articles/articles/IntegratingUnitTesting.pdf) If you want to register for the next session  (in the coming weeks) which will be identical to this one, email me at **\[email removed\].** If you want to register for a more advanced session (about database testing) email me as well saying so. ## More in Agile Related [All posts in Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related) - Jun 7, 2004 ### [Test Driven Development webcast](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/7/test-driven-development-webcast.html) - Jun 4, 2004 ### [When people don't want to do pair programming](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/4/when-people-dont-want-to-do-pair-programming.html) - May 17, 2004 ### [Announcing: Israel Agile Development mailing list](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/17/announcing-israel-agile-development-mailing-list.html) - May 17, 2004 ### [Test Driven Development Workshop this Wednesday](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/17/test-driven-development-workshop-this-wednesday.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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