Alex Bunardzic

Alex has been doing software development since 1990. He grew his practice by adopting the ethical approach that focuses on technology that serves human needs. That focus applies both to the users of software and to the developers of software. Practices that Alex found useful in pursuing that ethical orientation are Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development, pair and mob programming, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, No Estimates, and Approximation-Before-Precision. Alex has been leading and mentoring teams of software developers for the past 20 years. Currently, he is also working on establishing the Software Artisan Guild.

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Alex Bunardzic 01 February 2024

Why Test-Driven Development? (Part 2)

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As discussed in Part 1, by segregating our focus on developing code that behaves as expected from the focus on developing code that will be well structured, we have achieved the ability to eliminate wasteful and error prone manual chores. That by itself is a really big win, and I often use that aspect of … Read more

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Alex Bunardzic 05 June 2023

Why Test-Driven Development? (Part 1)

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Software development is a very tough discipline. Robert Martin (better known as Uncle Bob) holds that software development is the toughest discipline because never before in human history was there an expectation to deal with such insane levels of details. Software development is so tough that it even created the movement called Extreme Programming (XP). … Read more

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