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Another year @AgileTestingDays

Alessandro Melchiori — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:28:51 +0000

For the second year, CodicePlastico will be active presence at Agile Testing Days.
After the last year session about Continuous Integration and build server configuration, this year the sessions will be two

The title and abstract of my session:

TDD vs BDD: from developers to customers

TDD is a famous agile practice which bases its strength on the possibility to produce simple and emergent design and inspires confidence with our software. BDD merge TDD’s advantages and move focus from developer to customer perspective and business process.

In this practice-talk we’ll compare TDD and BDD and try to mix them using an acceptance test framework like fitnesse to meet customer’s requests and emphasize business processes to model with our software.

and the title and abstract of Emanuele’s session

Real World Test Driven Development

Test Driven Development is gaining a lot of appreciation in these years due to it’s relevance in the development of quality software applications. Even if it’s not a real testing practice (it is a design practices) it has the nice side effect that your tests suite become bigger as your software grows giving you immediate feedback about your project quality status.

In this session we will see how to apply TDD in a real application starting from the first tests that add a little functionality. We will see how TDD helps us to keep a clean design and how it give us the rhythm (red-green-refactor) and how to use mock objects and stub to keep test isolated from infrastructural environment.

It is a very practical session with live coding.

See you in Berlin?

AgileTestingDays…a beautiful experience

Alessandro Melchiori — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:59:03 +0000

The past week, Emanuele and I were in berlin to attend the agile testing days conference.
We made a speech about Continuous Integration, from theory to practice. It was my first “international” speech and it gone quite fine.
In those days I saw and I spoke with a lot of “agile-guru” like Tom and Mary Poppendieck and it was a beautiful experience.
The percept I had is that the rest of Europe is much more advanced than Italy about agile methodologies and theirs adoption.
For example, Sometimes when we go to our customers and suggest some agile practices, they look us in a strange way…I don’t know why? Some other speaker, instead, told me that in UK or in Germany, for example, the adoption of agile methodologies is almost a standard-de-facto and with their customers they speak about user stories or continuous integration in a natural way. I hope it will be like this also in Italy.

In conclusion, many thanks to Jose and all his staff for the great organization and…see you the next year!

@Berlin

Alessandro Melchiori — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:48:12 +0000

Finally, we are in Berlin! Emanuele and I arrived yesterday, after a long travel.
It’s very cold: on saturday, I had a t-shirt on, today in Berlin it’s snowing almost.
Yesterday I had a half-marathon with Ema, but the first impact with this city is not so good…maybe for the rain, maybe for the weather or maybe because I woke up 24 hours before.
The conference starts and today is the tutorials-day…it’s a good chanche to finish my demo for wednesday

Stay tuned!

Agile testing days…we’re arriving (almost)

Alessandro Melchiori — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:53:53 +0000

This afternoon, Emanuele and I have built the demo for the agile testing days.
Our idea is that to completely (more or less) reproduce the build environment that the team uses all days in our projects. The tasks that we have scheduled are:

- automatic assemblies versioning
- integrating database changes
- build
- running unit tests
- running integration tests
- deploying
- code metrics (and more over) with source monitor, fxcop and simian

The time available is not so much, and we have tried to choose must useful tasks (for us, obviously)
Any other ideas? Suggestions? Tasks that do you want to investigate?

SqlServer2008: prevent saving changes

Alessandro Melchiori — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:36:15 +0000

Since I installed SqlServer2008 on my production machine, I tryed to learn T-Sql commands to create tables, to manage indexes (and so on..). In this way I can introduce this scripts in our build automatic environment.
A few days ago, I needed to modify a table’s stucture through SqlServer Management studio. With my pleasure, I noted that this simple task wasn’t not so simple

To solve this “issue” I disabled “Prevent saving changes that require table re-creation” option from Tools -> Options menu: