Marcus Ahnve
Marcus Ahnve is a Senior Consultant at Valtech, a global IT consultancy. He is
a agile coach and developer helping software development organizations.
Marcus experience in agile software development dates back to 1996 and his
first project which was done in Smalltalk. In 2001 he started doing XP
development and has since then explored new ways of making development more effective, economical and fun. Marcus is one of the founders of the community conference on agile methods Agila Sverige held yearly in Stockholm.
Track abstract - Room G4 - Emerging Technologies
Real World Rails 3
It has been five years since version 1.0 of Ruby on Rails was released. Since then the framework has matured to become a powerful and effective platform for web development. The Rails community has also by large taken over the innovation leadership previously belonged to Java.
This talk will describe Rails and its advantages by describing how we
developed a custom built site for a customer.
Track abstract - Room H1 - Java
BDD with Cucumber and RSpec
Original Test Driven Development was very much based on traditional object
oriented modelling, with a focus on unit testing. That approach has shown to
be less than perfect when developing client driven applications with a rich
UI.
A couple of years ago, Dan North coined the term Behaviour Driven Development to describe an outside-in approach to developing an application. By defining acceptance criteria as executable code first, you make sure that all code you write supports that criteria.
The ruby community has produced two tools that greatly supports BDD: Cucumber and RSpec. The talk will show how to drive your Ruby and Java code BDD style using Cucumber and RSpec.
Track abstract - Conversation Corner
Do Agile teams need dedicated testers?
Adequate testing is essential to the success of most software projects, and many people make a career as testers. With the rise of agile methods, and developer practices like Test Driven Development, the role of professional tester is changing. In this fishbowl, we’ll be talking about the new challenges and opportunities that emerge when much of the repetitive basic checks that used to be made manually are automated away. What value can a trained tester bring to such an environment?
The discussion is open to everyone, but to get things going, some of the conference speakers have kindly agreed to sit in the fishbowl at the start and share their views on the matter.
