# TDD Conference 2021 - TDD All The Things - Liz Keogh

First International Test Driven Development took place on July 10th. 

In this series, I will include every talk together with my notes and further reading.

Hopefully, a lot of readers will watch and rewatch the talks, as they are worth several reviews.

Let's continue...

## Bio 

Liz Keogh is a Lean and Agile consultant based in London. She is a well-known blogger and international speaker, a core member of the BDD community and a passionate advocate of the Cynefin framework and of Wardley Mapping. She has a strong technical background with over 20 years’ experience in delivering and coaching others to deliver software, from small start-ups to global enterprises. Most of her work now focuses on Lean, Agile and organizational transformations, and the use of transparency, positive language, well-formed outcomes and safe-to-fail experiments in making change innovative, easy and fun. 
 
> TL;DR: Amplify your possitiveness!

## Talk

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# My Personal notes

- BDD suggests we should start methods with 'should' instead of 'test'.
- Nowadays we have annotations on tests.
- BDD forces us to think about behaviour.
- TDD cycle as behaviour: Test = Describe Behaviour, Pass = Change Behaviour, Refactor = Amplify the positives
- The sandwich methodology: Say something good, then something bad, and after that something good again.
- The sandwich done well: describe what you want and don't let people write their own code.
- Try to find psychological safety. 
- Novice people can write tests by copying existing ones. 
- Experienced Beginners can get TDD working from scratch.
- Practitioners write tests before the code.
- Knowledgeable Practitioners teach TDD to others.
- When refactoring, aim for better, not perfect.
- When refactoring people, we should play to our strengths and be forgiving.
- In complexity, tests and descriptions of behaviour are just examples of what might happen.
 
# Speaker Links

- Twitter [@lunivore](https://twitter.com/lunivore) 
- LinkedIn [@liz-keogh-6240071](https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-keogh-6240071/) 
- Site [https://lizkeogh.com](https://lizkeogh.com) 
 
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# Index

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