The RSpec Book is a new publication from The Pragmatic Bookshelf co-written by Zach Dennis, a partner here at Mutually Human. The book is designed to help people and teams that are having a hard time with TDD, trouble with test suites and just looking for a better way to get things done.
From the Pragmatic Bookshelf website:
Is your team trying to do TDD and failing? Are you finding your test suites bloated and difficult to read, understand, or maintain? Business applications today are plagued with features that are never used,
highly coupled code that is hard to change, and expensive test suites that aren’t run any more because they are brittle and unreadable.
RSpec, Ruby’s leading Behaviour Driven Development tool, helps you do TDD right by embracing the design and documentation aspects of TDD. It encourages readable, maintainable suites of code examples that not only test your code, they document it as well. The RSpec Book will teach you how to use RSpec, Cucumber, and other Ruby tools to develop truly agile software that gets you to market quickly and maintains its value as evolving market trends drive new requirements.
Zach is passionate about solving problems and believes in ongoing improvement to the methods and practices used in solving those problems. He agrees that people matter most and is very interested in improving the communication between technical developers and non-technical business people.