Presentation: "CruiseControl"
Time:
Tuesday 15:40 - 16:40
Location:
To be announced
Abstract: Continuous integration has become a popular practice on many software development projects, agile or not. With CruiseControl ThoughtWorks created one of the first solutions in the field, and in this session we discuss typical patterns, best practices, and advanced techniques for continuous integration and the deployment of CruiseControl. We will also provide an overview of the planned development of CruiseControl
Presentation: "Introduction: Enterprise Application Frameworks (day 2)"
Time:
Wednesday 09:00 - 09:15
Location:
SAS Nortvegia
Abstract: TBA
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Presentation: "Case Study: The New Guardian.co.uk"
Time:
Wednesday 14:30 - 15:30
Location:
SAS Nortvegia
Abstract:
The Guardian newspaper has embarked on the next stage in its digital content strategy with the launch of its new travel site: The New Guardian.co.uk
From a technical perspective the development team faced several challenges when building the new platform for one of the UK's largest websites. Substantially increased capabilities to organise and relate content require more complex logic. This in turn means maintaining highest levels of performance when creating dynamic pages. The brief also called for a complete separation of page design and content logic, integration with user generated content, and a strategy for the migration of over a million URLs.
In this case study Matt and Erik present the overall solution, which uses practices and technologies such as Domain-Driven Design, the Spring framework, AJAX, AOP, syndication and automated web testing. They also discuss in detail some of more innovative approaches to the challenges.
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Presentation: "Panel: Enterprise Application Frameworks"
Time:
Wednesday 16:00 - 17:00
Location:
SAS Nortvegia
Abstract:
During the track we have seen all those technologies and frameworks -
probably a lot of questions are left open and almost certainly new have
arisen.
In this panel we will take the input from the audience and
discuss Enterprise Frameworks in general. So this is your change to
actively participate!
Tutorial: "TDD tutorial"
Time:
Friday 09:00 - 12:00
Location:
SAS Room 13/14
Abstract:
This tutorial demonstrates the development of a small example application using test-driven development and related technologies. The system will comprise a handful of Java classes that exemplify typical components found in enterprise applications, including domain objects and a service layer. The tutorial is structured into three 'iterations' which cover
- state-based testing with JUnit
- interaction-based testing with JUnit and jMock
- deployment in lightweight containers such as PicoContainer and Spring.
The iterations not only introduce the concepts but also provide room for the discussion of trade-offs and edge cases, e.g. how to deal with testing private methods and when not to use dynamic mocks but fake objects.
Attendees gain an understanding of how proper use of test-driven development fosters good design; through decoupling and interface discovery for example. Attendees will also gather a nice catalogue of the most commonly used patterns used in conjunction with test-driven development.
