Extreme Practices: Are They Safe?
summary
Developers discuss unconventional engineering practices—pair programming, refactoring, and TDD—sharing real stories about benefits and pain points. The session covers practical experiences from four engineers (Stanislav Shabalin, Alexey Okhrimenko, Semyon Levenson, Sergey Berezhnoi) to evaluate how safe and effective these methods are in real projects.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Extreme practices intro
- 1:29Why and when to test
- 5:26TDD myths
- 13:55Refactoring safely
- 21:05Refactor size matters
- 25:19Frequent releases survival
- 33:30Pair programming myths
- 41:52When pair programming works
- 47:33Extreme practices safety
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