Live Q&A with Valentina

TDD - Hexagonal Architecture - Engineering Leadership

👋 Hello, this is Valentina with the free edition of the Optivem Journal. I help Engineering Leaders & Senior Software Developers apply TDD in Legacy Code.

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I’m excited to launch the series of Live Q&A sessions! During these sessions, you can ask me any questions.

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📢 My next Live Q&A Session about Unit Tests is on Wed 30th April 17:00. If you’re an Optivem Journal paid member, get your 100% discount ticket.

Upgrade to join the Live Q&A for free:

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Key Themes

• TDD | Automated Testing | Continuous Delivery

• Hexagonal Architecture | Clean Architecture

• Continuous Delivery | Legacy Code Modernization

• Engineering Leadership | Organizational Transformation

• Technical Coaching

Live Q&A Question Backlog

In preparation for the Live Q&A, I asked our premium members if they have any questions. The following are some questions I already received on live chat:

1. When should we use Mocks vs Fakes vs Stubs?

2. Which approach should we use for managing sprint scope, deadlines & estimations? How to handle fake agile organizations?

3. How do we handle external systems where there is end-user involvement (e.g. payment SMS validation)?

4. How narrow or coarse-grained should Unit Tests be in Hexagonal Architecture?

5. Should we separately test Adapters in Hexagonal Architecture?

6. How to explain the importance of pipelines & automated testing to management, who sees it as extra cost that isn’t worth the investment?

7. How to balance learning how to create software vs creating software?

Would you like to ask another question? (paid subscribers only)

How it’s going to work?

This is my tentative plan:

• Prioritization of questions (haven’t yet fully decided):

  • Currently, I plan to answer question by question in chronological order

  • Later, perhaps allowing you to vote, and then going by votes

• Time-boxing the Q&A to 1h

  • During this time slot I’d be able to cover a subset of questions

  • Left-over questions could get handled in follow-up live Q&A sessions

• Face-to-face discussion

  • After I answer a question, you’re free to discuss the topic with me, live

• Session recording

  • Session will be recorded, so that you’ll be able to watch it later

Which tools?

The following are the current tools I plan to use:

• Google Meet for the meeting

• Miro for drawing

Next Steps

How to test access:

• Join Google Meet - Test Meeting (note: this isn’t a real meeting, it’s just a test meeting that I created so that you can try your video/audio on Google Meet)

• Register on Miro (ensure that you have an account for your email address, since I’ll be using Miro for drawing, so check that you have an account)

Upgrade to join

Only PAID subscribers will be able to:

• Join Live Q&A Sessions and have live discussions with me

• Watch Replays of the sessions (access to all past recordings)

How to join

On the day of the session (19th Feb), I’ll post on Group Chat the following details:

• Google Meet Link

This chat message will be accessible only to paid members.

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📢 My next Live Q&A Session about Unit Tests is on Wed 30th April 17:00.