JavaScript for Test-Driven Development: An Interview with Rob Myers

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March 12, 2013

Summary

Agile Institute founder Rob Myers sits down with Noel Wurst to discuss why he believes, and hopes, that JavaScript will be the language of choice for enterprise development. Rob shares with us why opinions on JavaScript have change, and why the language is a great fit for agile development.

Rob Myers shares with us his thoughts on why JavaScript makes an ideal development language, especially when using TDD on an agile project. We discuss why agile and TDD are art forms that aren’t “silver bullets,” but they certainly solve numerous troubles testers and developers may have faced without these methodologies in the past.

Rob Myers is founder of the Agile Institute and a founding member of the Agile Cooperative. With twenty-seven years of professional experience on software development teams, Rob has consulted for leading companies in aerospace, government, medical, software, and financial sectors. He has been training and coaching organizations in Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) management and development practices since 1999.

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agile agile transition extreme programming javascript scrum test-driven development

About The Author

Noel Wurst

Previously a copywriter and editor for TechWell, SQE, and StickyMinds.com, Noel Wurst has written for numerous blogs, websites, newspapers, and magazines. Noel has presented educational conference sessions for those looking to become better writers. In his spare time, he can be found spending time with his wife and two sons—and tending to the food on his Big Green Egg. Noel eagerly looks forward to technology's future, while refusing to let go of the relics of the past.