Someone that I respect in software development recommended this book to me. Pragramatic Thinking & Learning by Andy Hunt. I got it in the mail last evening and have already read half of it. He talks about the Dreyfus Model Stages. These stages apply to any profession and were first implemented in the early 1980s with nurses. He says skills in a profession are distributed in 5 levels from lowest to highest: Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Proficient, and Expert. Most people don't get past...
I am currently working with a company that has a 40 million dollar contract that will be lost if the code is buggy and incomplete. We have just started writing unit tests. TDD is foreign to most of the team members. Most of the code is contained in the code behind of aspx pages. I am using selenium to write the unit test. Team members are getting frustrated because of the tight deadline; they feel they don't have the time to unit test. While this is going on the company has decided the team should...