| When: January 5th, 2006 Gathering at 17:30, we start promptly at 18:00 Part I : Mock Objects - Asher Sterkin Mock Objects are a powerful mechanism for unit testing of classes, which depend on various environment elements: database, communication, clock, calendar, etc. Sometimes Mocks are confused with Stubs, Fakes, Simulators. Mocks are slightly more complex, though more flexible, than Stubs or Fakes and are much simpler than Simulators. In fact Mocks are so simple that sometimes developers miss the whole point and find themselves to be completely puzzled about effective usage of Mocks for unit testing and Test-Driven Development. And this is a shame: when properly used especially in combination with Design Patterns Mocks can be an extremely powerful mechanism of Test-Driven Development supporting very aggressive parallel implementation of multiple tasks related to the same story. In this presentation I will provide a systematic introduction of Mocks and will demonstrate how Mocks could be turned into an integral part of the Agile software development process. Part II: Refactoring 101 - Justin Angel Do you write Agile code or do you write Fragile code? Does your code embrace changes or does it crush and burn? Do you find yourself debugging over-commented, over-duplicated, over-complicated and over-bloated code? This talk will be about Agile coding techniques that will assist us in writing code that can last the duration. We will see examples on common coding problems such as Code duplication, redundant commenting, hard-coded code smells and bloated code. And we'll work togather on finding solutions for these problems. Agenda: 18:00 - 19:15 - Mock Objects Techniques - Asher Sterkin 19:15 - 19:30 - Break 19:30 - 20:45 - Refactoring Techniques - Justin Angel |
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