Agile Testing & BDD eXchange 2010
Join Dan North, Gojko Adzic and others for this year's Agile Testing & BDD eXchange. Be part of an informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion to learn, adopt and share new innovative ideas, tools and practices for enterprise software development.
With a maximum number of 125 delegates, we aim to provide an informal and intimate environment where you can share experience, demonstrate new ideas and techniques, talk to the experts and generally have lots of fun.
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Friday 19th November 2010
Track 1
10:00-11:00 KEYNOTE: DELIBERATE DISCOVERY: CODE LIKE YOU MEAN IT
Dan North: In this talk, Dan North explains why ignorance is the greatest enemy to success, and presents some strategies and techniques for deliberately reducing ignorance, increasing learning and moving towards more deterministic and lower risk software delivery.View the podcast here...
11:15-12:00 PATTERNS AND PRACTICES OF BUILDING GHERKIN BASED LIVING DOCUMENTATIONS
Gaspar Nagy & Christian Hassa: Implementing your first user story is easy: describe your first Gherkin scenario (Given/When/Then) and implement it outside-in using TDD. But as the system grows, several questions arise that you will need answer...Gaspar and Christian will talk about their experience on several .NET projects using SpecFlow and about questions that arose.View the podcast here...
12:15-13:00 AGILE TESTING AT TRADER MEDIA
Stuart Taylor & Vivek Prahlad: Trader Media runs the autotrader.co.uk website, which sees 500,000 unique visitors a day generate 20,000,000 page impressions. When the business decided it was time to re-vamp the platform, they decided they would adopt an Agile delivery methodology to help deliver a huge project with higher quality than before, within budget and on time.View the podcast here...
14:00-14:45 TEST-DRIVING AT HIGH SPEED: KLARNA'S AGILE STORY
David Evans & Erik Stenman: David Evans and Erik Stenman present an experience report on agile testing at Klarna, transition to Scrum and then Kanban, Erlang test automation environment, the strategies they used to adopt agile
acceptance testing and their experience with Fitnesse + SlimErlView the podcast here...
15:00-15:45 TEST DRIVEN DATA WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT
Andy Barker: In 2009, HML started on the implementation of a new business intelligence platform. In order to bring immediate business benefit the warehouse went
live with a very limited data set to support specific reporting requirements. This has required extensive re-factoring of the warehouse and associated ETL processes as new data sets have been added over time.View the podcast here...
16.00-16.45 BDD, ATDD AND PAGE OBJECTS
John Smart: In this presentation John Ferguson Smart discusses several case studies of automating web testing using BDD and ATDD tools and techniques. View the podcast here...
17:00--17:45 WINNING BIG WITH SPECIFICATION BY EXAMPLE
Gojko Adzic: Lessons Learned from 50 Successful Projects. After an extensive research of agile acceptance testing implementations for his new book, Gojko Adzic presents great war stories that will inspire you to improve your software development process.View the podcast here...
