Craig is in Atlanta at Agile 2016 and catches up with Michael Feathers, author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” and they talk about the following:

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code originally started as a book about Test First Programming but morphed into a book about the techniques for refactoring code in legacy systems
• The Pinned Progress Curve – for many people there is no incentive to change so the mean gets larger between the status quo and good practices
• Agile Alliance Deliver:Agile conference
• Organisations that have technical founders have a very different character to their work internally, need to make knowledge of the quality of software more pervasive – the business need to understand more about the technical side, and the developers need to understand more about the business
• Code that has excessive error handling typically has other design problems – benefit in thinking about whether…

Craig is at YOW! Conference and catches up with Anne-Marie Charrett who is well known in the testing community as a trainer, coach and consultant but also for her support of the community:

• Don Reinertsen talk “Thriving in a Stochastic World“
• Context-Driven Testing
• Testing is a verb – it’s a doing thing and not an output, but the challenge is you cannot see doing
• Anne-Marie’s class in Exploratory Testing
• Where there is risk and failure, there is a job for testing
• Exploratory testing – the key is feedback and using the learning to feedback into the next test
• Agile testing – don’t try and test everything and don’t try and automate everything either, rather adopt a risk based approach
• Unit testing – the usefulness depends on the programmer and the context and figuring out what you are trying to achieve
• Sydney Testers Meetup
• Speak Easy – Speak Easy…