Jose Luis Soria Teruel

Agile development practices aim for maintaining a high quality codebase, while assuring the delivery of value to the customer, and the flexibility to adapt to changes in the project environment. Databases are a key component in lots of projects, thus they shouldn't represent an exception when applying these practices. Evolutionary design and declarative development applied to databases, allow us to use almost all the agile practices and techniques that are already being adopted for the rest of the code base. During this session we'll use Visual Studio Database tools and Team Foundation Server to show how we can manage database schema, code and data changes during a project, with the aid of techniques such as:

Version controlling
Tracking dependencies
Unit Testing and TDD
Refactoring
Static analysis
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment
Data generation
Data comparison and data motion management

The talk is best suited for developers already working with Visual Studio and SQL Server, although most of the session content can be directly applied to Oracle or even to other DB platforms.

Native/host COBOL code still represents a huge amount of the development effort in many organizations. But most of the existing tools for COBOL, suffer of an outdated approach to development, and don't provide support for many recommended practices that make up the foundation for a healthy project and for Application Lifecycle Management.

COBOLizer (http://www.cobolizer.com) is a set of tools that sits on top of Visual Studio, taking advantage of this modern, full-featured IDE for supporting native COBOL development. Using COBOLizer developers can benefit from many practices that are impossible or very hard to implement using other available tools, and without the need of altering the host configuration:

COBOL code editing inside Visual Studio, with syntax colorizing, syntax checking, word completion, quick information, etc.

• Source control
• Build automation
• Automatic deployment
• Static analysis
• Project management and tracking

The session will provide a general overview of COBOLizer and its main features.

This is a 12 minute "lightning talk"