--- title: "Recommended books (Blog category)" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/recommended-books.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/recommended-books" tags: [] 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." 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/" --- # Recommended books (Blog category) 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/category/recommended-books · 8 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://osherove.com/llms.txt) - [Back to Basics before Indigo: \[Book\] Understanding COM+](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/9/14/back-to-basics-before-indigo-book-understanding-com.md) (2005-09-14): Lately, I've had to give back what has to has come to be, for me at least, the ultimate guide to COM+ services and infrastructure. Interestingly enough, this book is not recent. It was actually published way back in… - [\[Book of the month\] Working effectively with legacy code](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/15/book-of-the-month-working-effectively-with-legacy-code.md) (2005-04-15): [Note: You can find more books I found very helpful or interesting here ] It's been a while, but I have a new favorite book - Working effectively with legacy code If your company or team is trying or going to try to… - [Got new books!](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/7/got-new-books.md) (2004-05-07): Just got these books: Coder To Developer by Mike Gunderloy - which I have a strong feeling is going to be next month's Book of the month Designing highly usable software Effective software test automation The last two I… - [Book of the month: May](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/1/book-of-the-month-may.md) (2004-05-01): I've updated my current book of the month and the list of book recommendations. I've also added a “recommended books“ category to my blog, for future reference. I'd love to hear your book recommendations. Book of the… - [Book of the month for April](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/3/book-of-the-month-for-april.md) (2004-04-03): Book of the month: Test Driven Development in Microsoft .Net From the reactions I'm starting to get from people this book is a winner. Highly recommended. - [\[Book\] Coder To Developer](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/15/book-coder-to-developer.md) (2004-03-15): I got the chance to review some of the chapters from Mike Gunderloy 's upcoming book , about to hit the stores anytime now: Coder To Developer . It looks to be a great book for those of us who want to take the leap from… - [Book of the month](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/5/book-of-the-month.md) (2004-03-05): My book of the month: Writing Secure Code, Second Edition After reading almost half of it I can safely say this book is a must for every developer. Getting into that security "state of mind", or even just awareness , is… - [Book of the month](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/17/book-of-the-month.md) (2004-02-17): New book of the month for this blog: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Get this book if you are an experienced developer and have been fighting with designing applications from the ground up, including… --- ## 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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