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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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	Refactoring: Ruby Edition, Adobe Reader by Jay Fields (Goodreads Author), Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler 4.08 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Working Effectively with Unit Tests by Jay Fields (Goodreads Author), Michael C. Feathers (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.99 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

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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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“The thing to remember with support is that true support always brings you back to your own sense of agency and confidence, not your need to rely on something or someone outside of you. A person who offers you support with integrity does so in a way that makes space for your fear and insecurities and doubts, whether rational or not, but does not enable them.”
― Jay Fields

tags: strength, support, yoga

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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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