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Test Driven Development: Ten Years Later
In this session, we review some of the landmarks in the history of Test-Driven Development and what they tell about how to develop software; the ideas, techniques, objections, and misunderstandings.
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Behaviour-Driven Development - a road to effective design and clean code
Dan describes a proven "outside-in" approach based on real life experience - engaging with and listening to our stakeholders. .
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Multicore Programming in Erlang
Ulf Wiger shows typical Erlang programs, patterns that scale well on multicore and patterns that don't, profiling and debugging parallel applications and ensuring correct behaviour with QuickCheck.
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Three Years of Real-World Ruby
Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years.
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Measure for Measure
This session surveys emerging evidence that we can measure the effect of the technical practices of Agile development, and explores what we might be able to do about it to our benefit.
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Kent Beck: Just You Wait
Kent Beck takes a look at trends and how they affect us. Communication, simplification, unintended consequences, disappearing models, and new approaches of design and tests are examined.
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The Joys and Pains of a Long Lived Codebase
Jeremy D. Miller shares lessons learned while developing a project over 5 years. He talks about his mistakes, what to avoid and how to design, code and test better.
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Testing Your Presentation Layer
Yehuda Katz shows how to test a web app's UI using technologies such as Johnson (Ruby to Javascript bridge), jspec (BDD for Javascript), Webrat and others.
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Gallio, a .NET Testing Automation Platform
Jeff Brown presents Gallio, a test automation platform, and MbUnit, a test automation framework for .NET. He shows how DbUnit works on Gallio and talks about the challenges to create such a platform.
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10 Ways to Improve Your Code
Neal Ford, an architect at ThoughtWorks, shows 10 ways to write better code. This is practical advice for developers, but application architects can benefit from it too.
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Executable User Stories with RSpec and BDD
An introduction to BDD and how to make plain text User Stories executable with RSpec's Story Framework, which is written in Ruby, but runs against production code written in any programming language.
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Presentation: The Ethics of Error Prevention
We are charged with the task of writing software that is reliable, sturdy, and trustworthy. Michael Feathers examines error-prevention in the history of our discipline and considers possible futures.
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