Tester Reading Challenge: Read Markus Gärtner's ATDD by Example in 15 Days or less!

Are you ready for a Tester Reading Challenge? Read Markus Gärtner's ATDD by Example in 15 Days or less!

Okay, one of my favorite testers, Michael Larsen, AST Board Member, This Week In Software Testing   producer,  a Boy Scoutmaster, and Weekend Testing America's driving member is often found saying, hey make a bold prediction, and then try and meet that prediction, you may just surprise yourself.  Well in the aftermath of CAST 2012 (Conference for Association of Software Testing), I noticed that he and a couple of my favorite testers and MiagiDo members went to by Markus Gärtner's ATDD by Example.  My copy arrived just today, and I've been looking forward to reading it during the next couple of weeks.  I was admiring the cover, and the size of the book is not too hefty, and thought hey, it's a shame I couldn't get Markus's picture with it.  Well actually I did thanks to tweetdeck (see here: http://twitpic.com/adnenn) As tasteful a picture of a book with my notebook computer as it will come. The thought then occurred to me, this book is 200 hundred pages.

I began to wonder, how long would it take me to read through this, at ten pages a day that would be 20 days.  No, that sounds too easy, and with some free time to read padded in my schedule, I decided to challenge myself, and anyone else so motivated to read Markus's book in 15 days or left.  For myself, I've set myself a challenge of August 12th to finish the reading.  (see: https://twitter.com/Veretax/status/230093387708125186)

I have no idea whether that's a reasonable challenge for me given my commute times to and from work at just over an hour and a half both ways.  Nor do i know how much free time I'll have in the next few weeks, yet ten pages a day seems a decent morsel to both read and digest and it's high time I tried something bold.  

Not only that, I'm challenging every tester in the community, who has not already done so to purchase this book, and try to beat, match, or meet the goal of reading this 200 page tome in 15 days or less.  If you take the challenge, I'd love to hear from you, and your impressions of the book as I'm fairly certain it's reading may help many testers look at their craft in new ways.


So, will you take the challenge?

Here's a quick link to the book on Amazon, should your local bookstore not carry it ATDD By Example: A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development