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Clare Sudbery

Lead Engineer @ Made Tech

Clare Sudbery is a lead consultant engineer with Made Tech. She is a maths graduate with 21 years of software engineering experience, and a particular interest in teaching and mentoring; encouraging more women into IT; and banishing impostor syndrome.

She helps to run an academy training programme for Made Tech, where she places a lot of emphasis on engineers learning Clean Architecture and SOLID principles, strong collaboration skills, and XP practices such as Test Driven Development and pair programming.

Clare hosts the Making Tech Better podcast (https://tinyurl.com/MTBetter). She is also a published writer and ex-high school maths teacher. She has presented workshops and talks at national and international events and conferences, and has exceptional communication skills. She has always been involved in the complete software development lifecycle, and has worked with a wide range of languages and frameworks. Among her previous roles, she was a lead consultant developer at ThoughtWorks.

Right now, Clare is on a mission to awaken the inner geek in clever women (and men) everywhere. She presents the Making Tech Better podcast, which launched in April 2021. She blogs occasionally at https://medium.com/a-woman-in-technology and https://insimpleterms.blog/. She loves her job.

 

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How to Stop Testing and Break Your Code Base

Apr 01, 2021

Do you code on your own? When you do, do you write unit tests? Do you agree that there are benefits to using test-driven development?

Recently, I asked a friend to pair with me on a personal project because my testing strategy was getting lax. I stopped testing for bad reasons, but started again for good ones. The experience has allowed me to demonstrate in practice the impact it can have on your code base when you don’t test, and also when you do. This talk, based on simple practical examples, will explain exactly why unit tests, a TDD approach and pairing can make all the difference to your code.