Bill Venners
Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc., provider of Scala books, developer tools, training, and consulting. He leads the open source projects for the ScalaTest testing library and the Scalactic library for functional, object-oriented programming. He is coauthor with Martin Odersky and Lex Spoon of the book, Programming in Scala.
Talks I've Given
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The Essence of Testing - Beginner
Featuring Bill Venners
After almost ten years of working on ScalaTest, there is still lots of potential for improvement of the library. In this talk, Bill Venners will share what he has come to believe is the essence of testing, and learn to evolve ScalaTest as a result. You will discover the propositional and...
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ScalaTest and Scalactic 3.0
Featuring Bill Venners
In this talk, Bill Venners will give you a tour of what's new in ScalaTest and Scalactic 3.0, including equality enhancements, EquaSets, restricted value types, and laws checking.
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Implicit Conversions => Implicit Parameters
Featuring Bill Venners
In this talk, Bill Venners will tell the story of the journey from a design that leaned towards implicit conversions in ScalaTest 1.0 to one that emphasizes implicit parameters in ScalaTest and ScalaUtils 2.0.
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Hidden Gems in ScalaTest 2.0
Featuring Bill Venners
In this talk, Bill Venners will guide you through ScalaTest 2.0 by pointing out lesser-known features of the testing toolkit that can help you get stuff done. You'll gain insight into what ScalaTest offers, why ScalaTest is designed the way it is, and how you can get more out of it.
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Pragmatic testing Nirvana with ScalaTest, ScalaMock and SubCut
Featuring Bill Venners and Dick Wall
Dick Wall gives a talk at Scala Days 2012, on how to achieve a Pragmatic Testing Nirvana with ScalaTest, ScalaMock and SubCut
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