This course is available as an in-house private course and in online form as well. For private courses the training material can be customized to get more focused learning addressing the exact needs of your team. Private courses can also be combined with follow-up coaching and consulting options. Contact us for finding out what option would be the best for you.
Overview
The 2-day XP Today for Developers training shows how to use the core principles and practices of Extreme Programming (XP) in today’s agile projects. It contains a mix of agile planning, requirement management, testing and implementation topics, as well as a few coding exercises. Coding exercises are provided for .NET/C# and Java. The attendees shall expect a lot of exercises and discussions, through which they can learn about all important aspects of XP.
The attendees shall receive a certificate upon the successful completion of the course.
Target audience
The course targets developers, team leads and architects. The course language is ENGLISH.
Learn how to:
- practice XP and why is it still important today
- support product owners and other stakeholders in planning
- build shared understanding of the requirements so prevent defects
- involve the entire team in the development process
- drive the development with acceptance and unit tests
- defer design decisions and keep the design simple
- support shared code ownership with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- use or not use TDD
- share knowledge about the code with pair and mob programming
- how to become a strong member of an agile team
About the instructor
Gáspár Nagy is the creator and main contributor of SpecFlow and Reqnroll, regular conference speaker, blogger (http://gasparnagy.com), editor of the “BDD Addict” monthly newsletter (http://bddaddict.com), and co-author of the “BDD Books: Discovery” and “BDD Books: Formulation” (http://bddbooks.com).
He has been developing a synchronization tool called SpecSync that integrates Gherkin-based scenarios to Azure DevOps and Jira.
Gáspár is an independent coach, trainer and test automation expert focusing on helping teams implementing BDD and SpecFlow. He has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software development as he worked as an architect and agile developer coach.