How to write quality software using the magic of tests

This talk will cover a lot of ground, and will be of most value to software developers that are new to testing or trying to improve their mastery of it.

Discussion to help you answer:
- How to prove the value of testing to bosses and clients?
- How to decide how much to test and how?
- How to rescue a troubled project?
- How to cope with deadlines?

Making good use of practices like:
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
- Code coverage
- Continuous integration
- Assertions and exception notification

Kinds of tests, along with their benefits, open source tools and sample code:
- Unit
- Functional
- Integration
- System
- Load

Testing application state and sample code for using:
- Instantiations
- Stubs
- Mocks
- Fixtures
- Factories

...and more! Audience questions will be welcomed.