Software Engineering Radio

Recording Venue: Skype
Guest: Kent Beck

Host: Martin

In this episode we talk with Kent Beck about this tiny little thing he created many years ago and that has changed the daily work of many many programmers in the world: automated unit testing and JUnit. We briefly revisit the history of JUnit, talk about how things began and what has happened since then. We discuss test-driven development (TDD), talk about when to do TDD and when not, and chat about experiences in the wild. The episode closes with some personal thoughts about the future of testing and software engineering in general.

Links:

• JUnit at GitHub
• JUnit Max
• Test-Driven Development – By Example
• Poker Workout

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Recording Venue: JAOO 2008
Guest(s): Jim Purbrick

Host(s): Markus
In the first part of this episode we discuss a couple of basics about SecondLife (scaling, partitioning, etc). The second part specifically looks at how the dev team tackled a number of interesting problems in the context of executing their own LSL scripting language on top of Mono.

Links:

• SecondLife
• Linden Lab
• LSL
• Mono
• Jim Purbrick’s Blog

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