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Kent Beck has programmed for 45 years. He pioneered software patterns, test-driven development, the xUnit family of testing frameworks, Extreme Programming, and he is alphabetically the first signatory of the Agile Manifesto. Most recently he spent 7 years coaching engineers at Facebook. Now independent, his focus is storytelling, collaborative development, quantitative studies of software engineering, art, singing and guitar, writing, and proselytizing cheese making. Well, perhaps "focus" is the wrong word.

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<A HREF="https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd756864" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Test && commit || revert (TCR)</A> is an alternative programming workflow to Test-Driven Development. If the tests pass changes are committed, otherwise all changes since the last successful test run are discarded. TCR incents making changes in teensy-tiny steps.
TCR is brand new, with this the first public workshop describing it. As such, we will be building rudimentary tooling for TCR at the same time we experience it.
TCR enables <A HREF="https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/limbo-scaling-software-collaboration-afd4f00db4b" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Limbo</A>-style collaboration on code (tiny changes instantly propagated). Once we are comfortable with TCR we will be simulating Limbo with the whole workshop.
Participants will come away from the workshop understanding just how small changes can be, how such changes can be sequenced, and what the implications of such tiny changes might be.
The workshop will be held in San Francisco. You must be present to participate. There will be no recording or streaming of this first workshop.
Prerequisites: participants should be comfortable programming and writing automated tests. Initiative and curiosity will help because the topic is so new.

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