Category: DDDIreland

DDD Ireland – Post Conference

imageThis weekend was the DDD Ireland conference in Galway. I was there presenting my Red, Green, Refactor presentation which outlines the concepts of Test Driven Development (TDD) and demonstrates some of the techniques via code. I think the session went down well, but it’s always difficult to tell.

The conference itself was great! Based on the same idea as DDD in Reading, some of the leading presenters in the UK (and Germany) community where on display discussing the latest Microsoft technology. We also had Barry, Dave and John from NxtGenUG doing swaggily fortunes, which was interesting…. Big thank you to everyone involved for organising the event, and for actually inviting me to speak 🙂

As promised, my slide deck and the completed solution for the application can be found here:

Slides – Ben Hall_Red_Green_Refactor.zip

Code – BenHall_RedGreenRefactor_CompletedSolution.zip

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DDDIreland Teaser – Red, Green, Refactor!

For DDDIreland, all of the speakers where asked to do a teaser about their session. This is the session I will be running at DeveloperDayScotland and NxtGenUG Coventry.

The teaser is just a short 4 min demo of writing your first test and what else to expect from my session.

Session abstract:

“Starting to unit test your first project is difficult, where to start? What to test? How do you even get started? In this session, Ben starts from scratch and implements an ASP.net 2.0 application using test driven development techniques. The application will have to deal with real world situations such as databases, web services and even some users! Ben will demonstrate how to design the application for testability and how unit testing and mock frameworks can make your life easier and your tests less fragile. At the end, will the tests go green?”

If you have any questions about the session, then please contact me.

View it online – SPEAKING @ DDDIreland.com – BEN HALL – May 3rd 2008 Galway

Download from http://blog.benhall.me.uk/downloads/Screencasts/DDDIreland/DDDIrelandTeaser.wmv

As a side note, the registration for DDDIreland is now open! You can register here

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DDD Ireland

If you haven’t heard, there is going to be a DDD Style event in Ireland called – wait for it – DDD Ireland.  Most of the agenda is now on the site, I will be going over to do my Red Green Refactor! session.

Abstract:

“Starting to unit test your first project is difficult, where to start? What to test? How do you even get started? In this session, Ben starts from scratch and implements an ASP.net 2.0 application using test driven development techniques. The application will have to deal with real world situations such as databases, web services and even some users! Ben will demonstrate how to design the application for testability and how unit testing and mock frameworks can make your life easier and your tests less fragile. At the end, will the tests go green?”

Should be a great weekend, can’t wait! Hmm, will this class me as an international conference speaker? 🙂

Site – http://www.dddireland.com/

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