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Thomas Sundberg

Thomas Sundberg is a consultant at Agical AB in Stockholm, Sweden. He has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, in Stockholm. He has been working as a Java developer the last ten years. His first experience with test driven development was with JUnit the autumn of 2000. He has also worked as a lecturer at KTH teaching programming courses. There he realized that students who solve programming assignments in pairs normally produce better solutions compared to students working alone. Thomas has a passion for automation and has set up and maintained Continuous Integration systems since 2004 at different companies, including a large Swedish-Japanese mobile phone manufacturer.

Prior speaker experience:

  • XP 2009, May 1009, Sardinia, Italy
  • Agila Sverige 2009, June 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Öredev 2009, November 2009, Malmö, Sweden
  • Java Forum JUG in Stockholm, December 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Teacher at the Royal Institute of Technology, 2002 - 2003, Stockholm, Sweden.


  • lecture

    Clean Code – Software Craftsmanship

    Clean Code – is it worth the time and money to write your code so it is trivial to understand and maintain?

    I will discuss the concept of Clean Code and introduce the concepts laid out in the books Clean Code by Robert C Martin and Refactoring by Martin Fowler.

    Topics that will be covered are:

  • Meaningful Names – why are naming so important?
  • Functions – how should they be written, which abstraction level should they contain?
  • Comments – why do you write comments?
  • Formatting – why is formatting important?
  • Objects and Data Structures – which abstractions should we have?
  • Error Handling – checked or unchecked exceptions?
  • Unit Tests – how they be written, what should they communicate?
  • Classes – how should classes be organized?
  • Successive Refinement – how do we evolve our implementation?
  • Learning outcomes:

  • The participants will have an understanding of why readable and maintainable code is the most important outcome of their profession
  • The participants will have an understanding why automation is extreme important
  • The participants will know that software development is a craft that requires craftsmanship


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