Marcus Ahnve

The entry barrier for Java developers to Android development is low as Android supports large parts of Java SE. But what is the situation regarding the support for automatic unit and integration tests? Marcus has practiced TDD since 2001 and has over the years become an avid supporter of Behaviour Driven Development. The talk describes how to develop an Android application using test driven development.

Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) such as Git, Mercurial and Bazaar has had a major breakthrough the last two years, especially within the open source community. Several large projects like the Linux kernel, Ubuntu, Open Solaris and Ruby on Rails use a DVCS. What is the advantages of an DVCS, what are the differences between a DVCS and traditional VCS's and are there advantages using them outside the open source world? The talk demonstrates how the most common DVCS's work, the differences between them and how to use them effectively.

* Why do we separate development from maintenance and operations? * Why do system architects chose frameworks and write UML diagrams but do not write any code? * Why do we measure how many lines of code a developer writes? The theories of Frederick Taylor and those that followed them still today sets the norm for how organizations are managed. What we see as normal and common ways to organize work have their historical roots in early 1900's steel mills. These practices make agile adoption difficult, hinders empirical processes and self organizing teams. The talk provides an explanation to why IT-organizations are managed like factories, why these fail, and how to start the change into a succesful agile organization.