Extreme Test Makeover at Agile '06

Brian Marick and I hosted "Extreme Test Makeover," where people could bring their laptops with code and tests, and have an experienced tester/programmer review them.

Observations by participants:

• Watij tests in Fit are too long/confusing to read for customer.
  • You could write it in JUnit instead of Fit

  • Break them up into small focused tests
• Neat new delegate syntax (with .Net 2.0)
• Descriptive variable names are good [even] for short term variables.
• Keep tests focused on one purpose - If a test needs 3 things to work, create 3 tests
• Generic isn't always useful.

Thanks to our participants and our experts: Bob Martin, Brian Button,
Janet Gregory, JB Rainsberger, Jim Newkirk, Jim Shore, Lisa Crispin,
Micah Martin, Randy Coulman, and Ward Cunningham.