Sessions at Open Source Bridge 2009 about Agile

Wednesday 17th June 2009

• Agile JavaScript Testing

  by Scott Becker

  h3. Intro
  * Test Driven Development - What is it, why do it, what are the advantages?
  * Challenges of web applications - browser quirks, asynchronous ajax, dynamic-ness of JavaScript language
  * Future VMs will run JS faster, making "bigger", more processing intensive apps possible within a browser
  * Traditionally web applications have most business logic running server side.
  * Testing for server-side web applications has matured over the past few years
  * AJAX applications have large amounts of code executing in the browser in JavaScript
  * This creates a growing need for testing at the browser level, but this area is still young and not as widely practiced

  h3. What do we gain?
  * Stable development - iterate without fear of breaking existing features
  * Easier refactoring - rewrite the guts of your app and be confident it continues to work
  * Speed - stop refreshing and clicking through your app to verify things are working, thats what computers are for
  * Automation - repeatable tests help you do the right thing every time, without having to think about it

  h3. Getting Started
  * What libraries and methodologies exist for JavaScript testing?
  * A simple example - a client-side form validation library and a suite of tests for verifying it works as expected

  h3. Going further
  * A complex example - integration testing, scripting user stories
  * Testing across multiple browsers
  * Incorporating JS tests into a larger development workflow with server-side tests
  * Continous integration - running tests automatically, every time you commit

  • Agile
  • JavaScript
  • Testing
  • Web
  • Web Applications

  At 11:20am to 12:05pm, Wednesday 17th June

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Thursday 18th June 2009

• Project Management Should be Boring!

  by chromatic

  Many software projects suffer from long release schedules, feature freezes, painful QA processes, awkward merges, version number debates, backwards compatibility paralysis -- oh, and customers who aren't completely delighted.

  Project management doesn't have to be this way.

  Several real-world projects have solved these problems with a combination of iteration, refactoring, continual improvement, reflection, and low-ceremony processes. The solutions aren't all simple or easy, but they're easy to understand, and they're within your grasp. This talk will tell you what's possible and recommend concrete steps to improve your project management.

  • Agile
  • Project Management
  • release schedules
  • XP

  At 3:50pm to 4:35pm, Thursday 18th June

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