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Why UI Testing is Sooo Hard
Ivan Inozemtsev discusses the automated testing difficulties of an Eclipse-based application’s UI, introducing the RCP Testing Tool, how it helps and how it is implemented underneath.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Unit Testing
Kevlin Henney discusses unscalable tests, tricks and tips that make tests more specification-like and scalable to large codebases, and choosing between scenario-based and property-based test cases.
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Mini-talks: OS/App Inversion, Testing & Living Databases
Mini-talks on: OS/application inversion, testing, living databases, and rogue protocols.
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Mini-talks: Deterministic Testing, Typesafe Config, Spreads v Probe, & Real-Time Event-Driven
Small sessions on: Deterministic testing in a non-deterministic world. Hash Spreads and Probe Functions. Typesafe Config on Steroids. Real-Time Distributed Event-Driven Computing at Credit Suisse.
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Applying Reactive Programming to Existing Applications
Ben Christensen discusses the mental shift from imperative to declarative programming, working with blocking IO such as JDBC and RPC, service composition, debugging and unit testing.
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Five Techniques to Improve How You Debug Servers
Tal Weiss explores five crucial Java techniques for distributed debugging and some of the pitfalls that make bug resolution much harder, and can even lead to downtime.
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In the Toolbox - Live!
Chris Oldwood takes a look at a variety of both command-line and GUI tools - build automation, testing and support - that have proved to be useful to the speaker time-and-time again.
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Why BDD Can Save Agile
Matt Wynne presents unwanted patterns one can recognize from his own team, and provides insight on how to fix them.
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Patterns of Automation
Jeff Morgan shares lessons learned helping organization adopt test automation, along with techniques for keeping the automation code simple, clean and maintainable.
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Alembic: Automatic Locality Extraction via Migration
The authors introduce Alembic, a new static analysis tool that frees programmers from having to manually move computation to exploit locality in PGAS programs.
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Release Testing Is Risk Management Theatre
Steve Smith discusses why Release Testing is an anti-pattern, and offers an alternative risk reduction strategy.
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Programming with GUTs
Kevlin Henney advises on writing Good Unit Tests (GUTs) by treating testing as a form of communication with multiple levels and forms of feedback.