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Jay Fields is a software developer at DRW Trading, conference speaker, and author. He has a passion for discovering and maturing innovative solutions. His most recent work has been in maturing software design through developer testing and software testing in general.

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Starting a New Engagement as a Lead Consultant

Someone recently asked me for information on starting new consulting engagements. A few years back I published Sean Doran and Scott Conley's thoughts on Being a Lead Consultant. Sean and Scott's list is great for any lead consultant, and the advice applies well for the lifetime of a project. I considered sending that list to the person looking for new engagement advice, but I'm not sure that list Read more of this blog post »

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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love (The Dr. Sue Johnson Collection Book 1)

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“when writing tests you should prefer DAMP (Descriptive And Maintainable Procedures) to DRY.”
― Jay Fields, Working Effectively with Unit Tests

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“Tests do not, or at least should not collaborate; it’s universally accepted that inter-test dependency is an anti-pattern.”
― Jay Fields, Working Effectively with Unit Tests

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“I don’t like test names. Technically they’re method names, but they’re never called explicitly.”
― Jay Fields, Working Effectively with Unit Tests

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“Any fool can write a test that helps them today. Good programmers write tests that help the entire team in the future.”
― Anonymous

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“Being a human was about making sense of chaos, finding meaning among the random elements of the world.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

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“There’s not enough room in a man’s head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

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