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At Agile Portugal, I heard Emily Bache<\/a> give an inspiring keynote address on the importance of\u00a0coding dojos<\/a>\u00a0to advance the art of programmers and testers. \u00a0Emily, much like myself, is a strong proponent of test-driven development<\/a> (TDD), but recognizes that while TDD is easy to explain, it is very hard to put into practice. \u00a0Coding dojos help address that problem by creating a safe space for programmers and testers to learn more about TDD.<\/p>\n

\"CodingSo what is a coding dojo? \u00a0A coding dojo is when four to eight people meet once a week to discuss code and reflect on how to improve their craft of writing software. \u00a0Dojos are timeboxed sessions that last from sixty to ninety minutes with at least<\/strong><\/em> forty-five minutes of coding. \u00a0The remaining time at the end of the dojo is spent in a short Retrospective led by the facilitator. \u00a0Participants are encouraged to do the kata work together in pairs.<\/p>\n

Emily also wrote a great book, The Coding Dojo Handbook<\/a>, to help you start your own\u00a0coding dojos. \u00a0In the book, she describes the four simple rules of all coding dojos.<\/p>\n

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  1. Cannot discuss techniques without code:<\/strong> this is to retain the dojo focus on topics that programmers (and testers) care about – code.<\/li>\n
  2. Cannot show code without tests:<\/strong> since coding dojos\u00a0are an exercise on how to improve with TDD, the programmers must write unit tests<\/a> using an xUnit<\/a> framework.<\/li>\n
  3. Participants use katas to improve their skills:<\/strong>\u00a0katas are short programming exercises that can be solved any different number of ways, but usually focus on one element of the TDD cycle.<\/li>\n
  4. No code goes into production:<\/strong> this is to preserve the sense of safety essential for coding dojos since we want people to try practices they might not use in production code.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here is a\u00a0list of katas<\/a> from Emily’s github<\/a> site and another list of katas<\/a> from the coding dojo site. \u00a0If you are looking for more katas, just do a google<\/a> search on “coding katas” and it turns up lots of hits.<\/p>\n

    Of course, someone on the Internet decided to take the contrary position<\/a> about the benefit of coding dojos and kata. \u00a0 At least the author took time to craft\u00a0some well-reasoned positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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