Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Davide is an Assistant Professor at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. His talk summarizes the evidence about whether test-driven development is actually effective.
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On April 27, 2022, It Will Never Work in Theory ran its first live event: lightning talks from leading software engineering researchers presenting immediate, actionable results from their work. Our audience learned:
- powerful new ways to test modern software
- how to do better, smarter code reviews,
- what effective remote onboarding means during the pandemic,
- whether test-driven development actually makes you more productive,
- and what "productive" really means for programmers.
Their slides, and over 250 reviews of software engineering research papers, are all available on https://neverworkintheory.org.
We are grateful to Strange Loop, Mozilla, and Taylor & Francis for their support, and we hope you'll join us at Strange Loop 2022 in September for more insights.
Davide is an Assistant Professor at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. His talk summarizes the evidence about whether test-driven development is actually effective.
---
On April 27, 2022, It Will Never Work in Theory ran its first live event: lightning talks from leading software engineering researchers presenting immediate, actionable results from their work. Our audience learned:
- powerful new ways to test modern software
- how to do better, smarter code reviews,
- what effective remote onboarding means during the pandemic,
- whether test-driven development actually makes you more productive,
- and what "productive" really means for programmers.
Their slides, and over 250 reviews of software engineering research papers, are all available on https://neverworkintheory.org.
We are grateful to Strange Loop, Mozilla, and Taylor & Francis for their support, and we hope you'll join us at Strange Loop 2022 in September for more insights.
