Good Test, Better Code - Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Design in .NET March 24, 2009

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This is a single-day, high-impact workshop geared to creating a deep understanding of TDD and agile programing with minimal time away from your work, and is taught by one of the agile community's leading teachers and coaches in test-driven development and agile methods.
This workshop is about developer productivity. It teaches you how to use test-driven development and lean software development to be more productive in your work while continuously-improving quality and understanding. You'll learn advanced object-oriented techniques in simple and practicable ways that you will remember and apply at work. This workshop isn't just going to teach you how to write unit tests or just how to do test-first programing and test automation. It will show you how to use these techniques properly along side leading software life cycle methods that transform project groups into lean software production teams.Through test-driven and behavior-driven development, you'll learn which design patterns to use and how to use them. You'll write code that is easier to understand and easier to maintain. You'll write acceptance tests that let you generate documentation that helps your customers become deeply involved with the project, and helps programmers understand unfamiliar areas of a system with much less time wasted deciphering code and tests.Exercises cover unit-testing, mock objects, test-driven development, behavior-driven development, object-oriented design principles and patterns, and domain-specific languages for testing. Participants will work through testing and design problems individually, with the instructor, and with the group. Students should bring their own laptops installed with Visual Studio 2008 as well as the TortoiseSVN client for Subversion. Tools and materials will be provided on-site and assistance will be provided to students who need help to setup their laptops for the workshop.About the InstructorScott Bellware has been teaching test-driven development since 2003. He hosted the first public TDD classes for .NET developers in Texas and has since travelled throughout the US, Canada, and Europe teaching workshops to businesses, professional groups, and at industry conferences. Scott is known for simplifying and demystifying advanced software development topics and teaching memorable, lively classes. He is a five-time recipient of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award.Scott is the author of the SpecUnit BDD framework for .NET and has introduced many .NET community influencers to behavior-driven development and advanced topics in test-driven development. He is a software product designer, developer, manager, and agile coach helping teams to adopt agile development and to improve existing agile development practices, and to help integrate new agile development teams into their surrounding organizations.Scott is the founder of the AgileATX community of agile software practitioners. He organized the ALT.NET Open Space and Continuous Improvement conferences in Austin, and is a champion of progressive software development in the Microsoft community. Scott served as the track chairman for the agile development track at the DevTeach conferences, the software track chairman for the InnoTech conferences, and as the chairman of the INETA Speaker Committee.

Organized by Ampersand GT
Working with software developers and organizations to help realize the potential of software product development through higher productivity, higher quality, and improved customer experience
Learn more at apmgt.com

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Ticket Info:  

• Early Bird, $246.00
• Regular Price, $302.38

Official Website: http://gtbc-0903-austin-upcoming.eventbrite.com