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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.
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Statistical Debugging for Real-World Performance Problems
The authors show how statistical debugging can be used for diagnosing performance problems, lowing the overhead of run-time performance diagnosis without extending the diagnosis latency.
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Exploratory Testing
Tony Bruce introduces Exploratory Testing, what are its benefits, how to get value from it and some misconceptions.
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Behaviour Driven Development with Cucumber, Groovy and Grails
Marco Vermeulen discusses doing Behaviour Driven Development with Cucumber, Groovy and Grails.
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Treat Your Code as a Crime Scene
Adam Tornhill teaches how to predict bugs, detect architectural decay and find the code that is most expensive to maintain, how to evaluate knowledge drain in a codebase, and much more.
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CheckCell: Data Debugging for Spreadsheets
The presenters introduce CheckCell, an Excel add-on used to identify cells that have an unusually high impact on the spreadsheet’s computations.
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Integration Test from the Trench
Nicolas Frankel discusses the pros and cons of unit testing and integration testing, and looks at the unique challenges posed by integration testing, presenting tools and techniques to deal with them.