Craft 2025 - Llewellyn Falco
Llewellyn Falco
Agile Coach at Consultant
About Llewellyn Falco

Llewellyn Falco is an independent agile coach. He discovered strong-style pair programming. He is the creator of the open-source testing tool ApprovalTests( www.approvaltests.com ). He spends most of his time programming in Java and C# specializing in improving legacy code. He is the co-founder of TeachingKidsProgramming.org and co-author of Mob Programming Guidebook

Talks
Process files: Blueprints for Agentic AI
Topics:
ai
hands-on
llms
programming
refactoring
tdd
Level: General
In schedule:
Green stage
May 29, 14:00 - 15:40 CET

This presentation explores the innovative use of .process.md files to customize and direct AI coding assistants. We'll delve into how these markdown-based instruction sets act as "playbooks," enabling developers to codify specific workflows, enforce best practices, and teach the AI nuanced, context-aware behaviors for various development tasks. Discover how .process.md files transform AI assistant...

Telling Better Stories with Tests
Topics:
code quality
iterative refinement
maintenance
programming
refactoring
software development
software architecture
tdd
technical debt
technical excellence
technical neglect
testing
tools
technical debt management
unit tests
Level: Intermediate
In schedule:
Orange stage
May 30, 13:40 - 14:25 CET

This is a re-telling of an experience in which we started from just getting the code under test, and over many months gradually improved those tests to the point where they became so clear and expressive that they were usable as a stakeholder documentation.Tests provide much more than simple regression. Test scenarios tell a story of what your code does and how it's used. Unfortunately, most unit ...