Frank Westphal
Independent Consultant
|
|
Frank Westphal is an independent trainer and consultant from Hamburg, Germany. He has been developing object-oriented software in various roles since the early 1990s. In 1999, he formed a team which used all of the practices of XP. Since then he has helped introducing many of the practices and principles of XP into other organizations.
|
|
Sharpening the Saw (part 1)
Tuesday 10:45 - 12:00 (Tutorial Room)
In this tutorial, we'll present a greatest hits
collection of agile software development practices,
techniques, and tools. We'll take a look at as diverse topics as continuous
integration and frequent deployment, automation
of different sorts of tests, collaboration tools,
mock objects, project planning and tracking,
variable-scope contracts, and iteration retrospectives.
- Slides
Sharpening the Saw (part 2)
Tuesday 13:00 - 13:45 (Tutorial Room)
...continued
TUTORIAL Test-Driven Development, Thursday (full-day tutorial) Test-Driven Development is a quality-oriented
programming technique that helps you grow your
software in small increments. As a developer, you will write automated
code-level unit tests that help you build
the software right. As a tester, you will
supply automated system-level acceptance tests
that help the developers build the right software. Working this way has a number of benefits,
among them being able to change any code in the
system with absolute confidence, therefore
tremendously reducing your programming stress. This tutorial will have short introductory talks,
but primarily it will teach you first-hand
experience with required development techniques,
such as unit testing, test-first programming,
refactoring, continuous integration, acceptance
testing, and isolation testing with mock objects. So please bring along a laptop computer and your
favorite Java development environment. You can
arrange to bring one computer per two programmers.
It would be beneficial but it's not mandatory to
load and test JUnit (http://www.junit.org) prior
to this class. If you have any testing problems, please write
them down on an index card and bring it with you,
so we can discuss it during the tutorial.
|
