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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts."
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# Blog posts from 2019

Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts.

HTML: https://osherove.com/blog/2019 · 6 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://osherove.com/llms.txt)

- [Looking to do training or consulting in London around week of May 13th 2019](https://osherove.com/blog/2019/3/14/looking-to-do-training-or-consulting-in-london-around-week-of-may-13th-2019.md) (2019-03-14): If you're based in LONDON - I'm looking to do a 1-2 day workshop for interested customers about either DevOps Patterns , Elastic Leadership or TDD during the week of May 15th. Here’s the list of possible training or…
- [About Being Lonely as a Consultant](https://osherove.com/blog/2019/4/16/about-being-lonely-as-a-consultant.md) (2019-04-16): Loneliness, as far as I’ve felt it in the past 20+ years where I’ve done perhaps 50% of them as a consultant, is very common. If you become a consultant, you should expect and anticipate it as a given for at least part…
- [Announcing Continuous Delivery Israel Meetup - First Meeting (June 24)](https://osherove.com/blog/2019/6/2/announcing-continuous-delivery-israel-meetup-first-meeting-june-24.md) (2019-06-02): I’m pleased to announce that we will have the first ever meeting Continuous Delivery Israel meetup , in the AWS Floor28 offices in Tel Aviv, June 24th, 2019, at 6PM. The Group’s page is located at CDIsrael.com If you…
- [Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition, With Examples in JavaScript: Tech Reviewers Wanted](https://osherove.com/blog/2019/7/26/art-of-unit-testing-3rd-edition-with-examples-in-javascript-tech-reviewers-wanted.md) (2019-07-26): TLDR: I need JS Savvy tech reviewers for the 3rd edition of the book. Apply here, get a free book with your name mentioned in it if your feedback is awesome. The Rest Dear Diary. It has been six years since the last…
- [Can you write for 5 minutes?](https://osherove.com/blog/2019/8/22/can-you-write-for-5-minutes.md) (2019-08-22): Here’s a nice little web app that forces you to write continuously for a specified amount of time, and if you stop, all text is deleted. It’s a fun exercise, especially if you want to practice writing “flow”. Here’s…
- [An updated diagram of the TDD process from the upcoming 3rd Edition of Art of Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/2019/11/12/an-updated-diagram-of-the-tdd-process-from-the-upcoming-3rd-edition-of-art-of-unit-testing.md) (2019-11-12): As part of the work on Art of Unit Testing in JS, here’s a diagram I’ve created to explain Test Driven Development. Any feedback is welcome:


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## 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

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### Contact

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### License

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/
