By Paul Lorena
Continous Integration is one of the base in Agile development, this suppose to deploy the tests and run them to verify all the functionality of your application. Beyond this very restrictive technical aspect, there is a strong philosophy. The Citcon is aimed to gather all the persons working with CI and share theirs experiences to beginners.
I was advised before: Citcon is not a typically conference who has a speaker and one audience, the Citcon is a new experience where the speakers are the audience! Born in the middle of the Agile conception, Citcon follow the ‘autogestion’ principle.
I’ve attended some conferences, but we have a very good discussion in 1 topic:
Introduction TDD
This topic was proposed by Alexander van der Berg http://www.schuelervz.net, he wants to introduce TDD in his team, the discussion start with some ideas, at the end some cool ideas show up, I’ll write some about them:
- Don’t try to justify TDD to seniors developers, try the opposite… seniors developers must justify the NO-TDD, this will help you to clarify your arguments for TDD. It’s very hard to justify NO-TDD…
- Using screen video
Antony Marcano (www.testingReflections.co.uk / http://antonymarcano.com/Site/Home.html) show us, the screen video cast, in this way you can show to seniors developers the interactions while TDD development, this screen video capture the coding process and the voice between the developers, this could be very useful to show in ‘live’ all the conception process in TDD development
- TDD : write functional code faster / NO TDD : write bugs faster
- Lab-days, this was quite interesting because in our team we use this technique also, after 2 Sprints, make a lab-days with developers, some kind of ‘code race’, the developer or pair developers, must write code in different teams, the winner(s) are the team with a solid code (test, good design, good scalability, etc), Antony Marcano suggest use 10% of the time in all the life project.
- “I build right product. I build product right“
I was very lucky, at the end of the session I win a very cool book: Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Lisa Crispin/Janet Gregory)

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