When: 9/13/2010 5:30 - 8:00 PM CDT (Microsoft Office)

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Speaker: Jeremy Miller

Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin. Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for executable specifications in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.

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When: 10/11/2010 5:30 - 8:00 PM CDT (Microsoft)

Topic: Testing the right thing: Behavior-Driven Development in ASP.NET using Gherkin, SpecFlow and WatiN

In recent years, the friction of creating scenarios in BDD, and in using those scenarios to author tests, has been reduced greatly. Developers now have tools that enable specifications to be written using a structured, English syntax, and to use those specifications as the tests that prove out the code. These domain-specific languages now enable us to create executable specifications first in the process, followed by building out only that functionality which meets the specification, resulting in fewer, more value-focused tests.
This presentation will introduce Gherkin, SpecFlow and WatiN, and provide examples of how these three tools can be used to create BDD-style in ASP.NET MVC applications. Gherkin and SpecFlow provide the framework for writing and executing specifications within Visual Studio, while WatiN allows us to write tests that drive a web browser automatically, giving us automated, end-to-end testing of the public features system.

Speaker: Brandon Satrom

Brandon Satrom is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft based in Austin, Texas. He has eleven years of industry experience, splitting his time evenly between consulting/service organizations and internal IT shops. A Software and Enterprise Architect, Brandon has worked on projects of all shapes for companies large and small, most recently using technologies such as WCF, WF, ASP.NET MVC with a healthy dose of OSS. Brandon is active in the Austin technology community, both as a participant in local user groups and as President of the IASA Austin chapter. He lives in Austin with his wife and son and blogs about software architecture and development at http://www.userinexperience.com.

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