Next agile testing user group evening in London will be on the 4th February, at the new Skills Matter offices.
I’ll be presenting Cucumber a tool for behaviour-driven development and agile acceptance testing. I will demonstrate how to use Cucumber for Java, .NET and Ruby applications, talk about new Cucumber features and best practices for writing and maintaining Cucumber scenarios.
The event is free, but up-front registration is required for capacity planning. For more information and to register click here
At the agile testing user group meeting yesterday in London, Hemal Kuntawala talked about development strategies and process improvements at uSwitch.com over the last year or so. The start of his experience report reminded me very much of several teams I’ve seen over the last few years, with a process that is seemingly agile with lots of good ideas but also a ton of problems. Judging by the reactions from the audience the situation is very common in development shops today, so his success story is sure to be very encouraging to lots of people out there. Continue Reading »
Space-based architectures are an alternative to the traditional n-tier model for enterprise applications. Instead of a vertical tier partitioning, space based applications are partitioned horizontally into self-sufficient units. This leads to almost linear scalability of stateful, high-performance applications.
In this talk, I introduce space based programming and demonstrate how this works in practice on the .NET platform using Oracle Coherence and GigaSpaces.
“A lot of people are very keen on TDD as an idea, but a lot of teams struggle with technical hurdles on how to get there”. This is how David Evans started his “Fast Track TDD” talk tonight at Skills Matter, talking about how important it is to set up the structure for TDD from the start rather than try to retrofit it later. Continue Reading »
