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title: "[Audio Interview] Charlie Poole, NUnit lead developer - on NUnit, XP, TDD and much more"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/3/23/audio-interview-charlie-poole-nunit-lead-developer-on-nunit.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/3/23/audio-interview-charlie-poole-nunit-lead-developer-on-nunit.html"
published: "2005-03-23T11:32:00"
updated: "2005-03-23T11:32:00"
tags: ["Agile Related", "Interview"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Another interview out the door, this time with Charlie Poole, Lead dev on NUnit and an XP wonk. Go download it from here (1 hour 45 min. in 2 parts) Summary Roy Talks with Charlie Poole , the lead developer of NUnit on…"
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/"
---

# \[Audio Interview\] Charlie Poole, NUnit lead developer - on NUnit, XP, TDD and much more

By Roy Osherove March 23, 2005 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Interview](https://osherove.com/blog/category/interview)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 23, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

Another interview out the door, this time with Charlie Poole, Lead dev on NUnit and an XP wonk.

[Go download it from here](http://www.teamagile.com/mainpages/Interviews.html) (1 hour 45 min. in 2 parts)

**Summary**

Roy Talks with [Charlie Poole](http://www.charliepoole.org/), the lead developer of NUnit on various Agile topics. These include Upcoming NUnit features, Test Driven Development best practices, implementing XP in an organization, testing GUIs, threads, mock objects and much much more. Charlie also spills the beans about the upcoming NUnit blogs.

Charlie has spent more than 30 years as a software developer, designer, project manager, trainer and coach. He works through his own company, [Poole Consulting](http://www.pooleconsulting.com/), in the US and recently joined Dublin-based [Exoftware](http://www.exoftware.com/CharliePooleJoining.htm) to provide mentoring and training to clients in Europe.

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