I spoke with Emily and Geoff at the end of the conference and we were all a bit tired. Emily performed in the Coding With The Stars stage at Agile 2008 and gave a great run for the gold. One especially interesting segment was the customer story testing segment. For this segment Geoff played the customer and wrote a story test in TextTest and then Emily and Michael Feathers made it pass. This appearance of the customer was well received by the audience and judges.
Finally I get Geoff on a podcast. I recorded him last year but he will jump the queue with this one. Geoff works on a heuristic scheduling problem that is somewhat tricky to write acceptance and regression tests around. To solve this problem he did wrote his own test framework, TextTest.
I hope you enjoy this power duo and I suspect we will see more of them in the agile space.
-bob
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