Valentina Cupać is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Optivem, helping leaders of tech product companies to increase quality and accelerate delivery through technical agility. As a technical consultant and coach, she helps development teams adopt TDD & Clean Architecture in order to release new features much faster, minimize software defects, and scale teams effectively. This enables IT companies to build and scale high-performance teams, improve customer satisfaction and drive market success. Prior to coaching, Valentina had extensive hands-on experience in software development - as a Senior Software Developer, Tech Lead, Software Architect and Solutions Architect. She has graduated with a dual degree from the University of Sydney, majoring in Computer Science, Advanced Mathematics and Finance.

LOCATION: Online
KEYWORDS: Architecture

SPEAKER: Valentina Cupać   COMPANY: Optivem
SLIDES: 220201_Optivem_TDD_and_Clean_Architecture_Driven_by_Behaviour.pdf
RECORDING: jug.ch YouTube-Channel

How can we accelerate the development of high-quality applications?

We will review the foundations of approaches to unit testing (Classicist TDD & Mockist TDD), specifically focusing on the structural and behavioural coupling between test code and production code, how to write more robust tests which focus on behaviour - making our tests less costly to maintain and enabling easier code refactoring without breaking tests.

We will then review how to built-in testability into architecture and how behavioural tests are the essence of use-case-driven approaches within Hexagonal Architecture & Clean Architecture.

Finally, we will conclude with insights that driving tests and architecture with behavioural modelling helps us accelerate delivery and reduce long-term maintenance costs.

LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en

Valentina Cupać is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Optivem, helping leaders of tech product companies to increase quality and accelerate delivery through technical agility. As a technical consultant and coach, she helps development teams adopt TDD & Clean Architecture in order to release new features much faster, minimize software defects, and scale teams effectively. This enables IT companies to build and scale high-performance teams, improve customer satisfaction and drive market success. Prior to coaching, Valentina had extensive hands-on experience in software development - as a Senior Software Developer, Tech Lead, Software Architect and Solutions Architect. She has graduated with a dual degree from the University of Sydney, majoring in Computer Science, Advanced Mathematics and Finance.

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