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title: "Video: Unit Testing and TDD – Why You Should Care and How to Make It Happen"
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published: "2013-10-16T10:25:20"
updated: "2013-10-16T10:25:20"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "A few weeks ago I spent a few days in Germany and got the opportunity to speak at the siemens healthcare testing conference. I talked about why we usually fail to introduce new paractices into an organization and…"
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# Video: Unit Testing and TDD – Why You Should Care and How to Make It Happen

By Roy Osherove October 16, 2013

**Historical article** · Originally published October 16, 2013; technical details may be outdated.

A few weeks ago I spent a few days in Germany and got the opportunity to speak at the siemens healthcare testing conference. I talked about why we usually fail to introduce new paractices into an organization and explained influence forces and how our own estimates prevent us from doing the things we believe.

Here is the video:

[![](https://osherove.com/img/video/yt-3_UX8Kqb3aU.jpg)Play videoUnit Testing and TDD: Why you should care and how to make it happen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_UX8Kqb3aU)


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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.
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- [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.
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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/