Developer Testing: Building Quality into Software

About the Author

Alexander Tarlinder wrote his first computer program around the age of 10, sometime in the early nineties. It was a simple, text-based role-playing game for the Commodore 64. It had lots of GOTO statements and an abundance of duplicated code. Still, to him, this was the most fantastic piece of software ever conceived, and an entry point to his future career.

Twenty-five years later, Alexander still writes code and remains a developer at heart. Today, his professional career stretches over 15 years, a time during which he shouldered a variety of roles: developer, architect, project manager, ScrumMaster, tester, and agile coach. In all these roles, he has gravitated toward sustainable pace, craftsmanship, and attention to quality, ...