Agile Florida

Title: Testing as Communication, Real-World Techniques
Location: Navigator Coffee Squadron, 7643 Gate Pkwy, Jacksonville, FL 32256 (904) 928-0048
Description: This session covers how Hashrocket, an experienced Ruby on Rails consultancy, uses a wide range of real-world testing techniques and agile methodologies every day to satisfy client customer requirements. It will describe the life cycle of our testing workflow, from story capture to customer acceptance. This includes an overview of: fine-grained requirements gathering in “user story” form; how we manage stories and communicate transparently with the client using a web-based tracking tool; how story-driven development is expressed as test-driven development; and, how we enhance client/developer communication by writing plain-text tests in the vocabulary of the customer’s domain. In this session, you will learn how to turn natural-language requirements into running code that both customer and developer alike can communicate around; how to express customer requirements at the appropriate levels of abstraction, from high-level integration tests all the way down to granular unit tests; and, how to properly employ the latest tools, such as RSpec, StoryRunner, Selenium, Webrat, and fixture factories.

More at http://rubyjax.com/2008/9/17/september-meeting
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-09-30
End Time: 21:00

The Jacksonville Code Camp is coming up on August 23rd. They’ve got part of the site up to be able to register and suggest sessions. So far, the list is very heavy on Agile topics, so it should be a good time. Be sure to head over and register or suggest a session!

RubyJax’s June meeting looks like a fun one. It is Ruby Best Practice Patterns by Rein Henrichs and I wish I could be there (but I’ll be at the Agile Tampa meeting instead). Get all of the details at the RubyJax post.