Common Sense Testing

From a 757rb Alumni, Andrew Culver! In this presentation Andrew will be making the case that the common approach to Test-Driven Development, particularly at lower levels of the application stack, not only sucks the joy out of coding, but also increases the barrier-to-entry for new comers and ends up providing, in many cases, negative utility to the development team when compared with a focus on higher-level feature/integration/browser tests. Realizing this has lead to a major shift in his own development workflow, (including an increased ability to scale teams and delegate,) all while increasing the value provided to clients and customers.

Andrew Culver is the founder and lead developer of Bullet Train, the Ruby on Rails SaaS-in-a-Box. Previously he founded and sold Churn Buster and served as CTO at Borrowed & Blue.