Washington Object-Oriented Architecture and Design
| WHEN: |
Tuesday, November 18st, 2003 at 7:00 PM
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| WHERE: |
Best Western of Rockville (in the Restaurant)
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| DINNER: |
Buffet $12.50 (includes tax $ tip - to get the space, we have to eat)
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| TOPIC: |
Test-Driven Development
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| SPEAKER: |
Dave Astels (author of Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide)
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Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a corner stone of XP. Without TDD in place, most of the other practices are difficult or impossible (e.g. refactoring, continuous integration, ...). While writing a complete suite of programmer tests for your software is good, writing them first is better.
However, the benefits of practicing TDD are not limited to XP, and can be realized in any Agile (and even some non-Agile) contexts. TDD helps make our code better, regardless what amount of design or modeling has been done before programming begins. It's a generally useful technique to have in our bag of tricks.
About Our Speaker:
Dave Astels practices, teaches, evangelizes, and coaches XP and Agile Processes. Dave co-authored "A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming" and "A Practical Guide to Test-driven Development", both with Prentice Hall. An active member of the DC area eXtreme Programming User Group, Dave also contributes to many OO and XP conferences including the XP conference in Europe, JAOO, SD West, SD Best Practices, XPAU, Smalltalk Solutions, and OOPSLA.
Dave Astels is also a founding partner at Adaption Software,Inc.. Adaption's offers a variety of OOAD, eXtreme Programming, and Test-driven Development related services, including training, mentoring, and outsourcing.
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