Our workshops are meant to be fun, collaborative - we use pair programming in all workshops - and they address the issues that developers face everyday

Test Driven Development

You might be asking...

How TDD makes your code more cohesive and less coupled?
Does it takes more time to develop using TDD?
Why TDD help producing clean code?
How should I test my DAOs?

Did you know that...

TDD ensure you will produce the least amount of code possible
with TDD you generate client code for your design as eraly as possible!
with TDD you do not need coverage tools anymore!

In TDD sessions you will ...

Refactoring

I guess

... you do not have time to refactor
... it is to big a risk to change your production code
... a couple of if/else here and there will suffice to implement that new feature
... your code is starting to look like a museum?

But ...

How many code smells do you know?
Do you know how you make you code readable without Javadoc?
Do you know that your IDE is super powerful when it comes to refactoring?

With Refactoring sessions you will ...

Clean Code

What is ...

the notion of vertical distance in your programs?
a bad comment versus a good comment?

and ...

... why you should not name your class Manager?

During Clean Code sessions you will ...

XP Practices & Principles

Have you heard of...

... Collective code ownership?
... the YAGNI principle?

So ...

How do you put the YAGNI principle into practice ?
How do you introduce Collective Code ownership into a team ?
Why are the different ways to do code reviews ?

With XP practices we will ...