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The following material is good to read/watch/listen at home, a little every day. A good video to start with is Corey Haines' presentation on deliberate practice. Also the Agile Skills Project can give a roadmap on what to look more into.

Good Code

• Becoming an accomplished software designer by J. B. Rainsberger
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin et al. (book)
• 10 Ways to Improve Your Code by Neal Ford (video)
  • Summary (PDF)
• Bad Code, Craftsmanship, Engineering, and Certification by Robert C. Martin (video)
  • The video played at the beginning of the presentation
• Guide: Writing Testable Code by Miško Hevery et al.
• Refactoring at SourceMaking
• Better is Better by Steve Freeman (video)
• Understanding Coupling and Cohesion with Corey Haines, Curtis Cooley, Dale Emery, J. B. Rainsberger, Jim Weirich, Kent Beck, Nat Pryce and Ron Jeffries (video)

Emergent Design

• Essential XP: Emergent Design by Ron Jeffries
• The Art of Agile Development: Simple Design by James Shore and Shane Warden
• The Four Elements of Simple Design by J. B. Rainsberger
• Responsive Design by Kent Beck (video)
• Simplicity, The Way of the Unusual Architect by Dan North (video)
• Moving Specificity Towards the Tests with J. B. Rainsberger (video)

Naming Things

• Two Hard Things by Phil Karlton
• Clean Code Chapter 2: Meaningful Names by Tim Ottinger
  • Summary
  • Older version
• A Model for Improving Names by J. B. Rainsberger
• Three Styles of Naming Tests by Esko Luontola

Composed Method

• Composed Method by Kent Beck
• Composed Method Pattern by Jeremy Miller
• Evolutionary architecture and emergent design: Composed method and SLAP by Neal Ford

Dependency Injection

• Clean Code Talks – Dependency Injection by Miško Hevery (video)
• Clean Code Talks – Global State and Singletons by Miško Hevery (video)
• Do it Yourself – Dependency Injection by Chad Parry
• Big Modular Java with Guice by Dhanji R. Prasanna and Jesse Wilson (video)

Object-Oriented Design

• The Principles of OOD by Robert C. Martin
• The Principles of Agile Design by Robert C. Martin (video)
• An introduction to the SOLID principles of OO design by David Tchepak
• SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob - Robert C. Martin by Robert C. Martin (audio)
• It Is Possible to Do Object-Oriented Programming in Java by Kevlin Henney (video)

TDD

• TDD Introduction by Esko Luontola (PDF)
• TDD Tutorial by Esko Luontola (exercise)
• Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck (book)
• Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce (book)
• The Three Laws of TDD by Robert C. Martin
• The Art of Agile Development: Test-Driven Development by James Shore and Shane Warden
• How test-driven development works (and more!) by J. B. Rainsberger
• Sustainable Test-Driven Development by Steve Freeman (video)
• Introducing BDD by Dan North
• A New Look At Test-Driven Development by Dave Astels (PDF)
• Test-first and Test-driven conversation with J. B. Rainsberger (video)
• TDD, where did it all go wrong by Ian Cooper (video)
• Test-Driven Development (that's not what we meant) by Steve Freeman (video)

Tests

• F.I.R.S.T by Brett Schuchert and Tim Ottinger
• The Way of Testivus by Alberto Savoia (PDF)
• Writing Testable Code by Miško Hevery
• Integrated Tests Are A Scam by J. B. Rainsberger (video)
• Three Styles of Naming Tests by Esko Luontola
• The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design by Michael Feathers (video)
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Unit Testing by Kevlin Henney (video)

Test Doubles

• Mocks Aren't Stubs by Martin Fowler
• Mock Roles, not Objects by Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce, Tim Mackinnon and Joe Walnes (PDF)
• Mock Roles Not Object States by Nat Pryce and Steve Freeman (video)
  • Summary
• Friends you can depend on at Testing on the Toilet (PDF)
• Mocks, Fakes, Stubs and Dummies by Gerard Meszaros
• Mocks and Stubs aren't Spies by Hamlet D'Arcy
• Why You Don't Get Mock Objects by Gregory Moeck (video)

Some techniques for specific situations:

Domain Driven Design

• Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans (book)
• Domain Driven Design Quickly by Abel Avram and Floyd Marinescu (PDF)

Legacy Code

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers (book)
  • Older short version (PDF)

Refactoring Databases

• Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design by Scott W. Ambler and Pramod Sadalage (book)
• Evolutionary Database Design by Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage
• Database Refactoring by Pramod Sadalage

UI Testing

• GUI Architectures: Supervising Controller & Passive View by Martin Fowler