January: NSlim and FitNesse: The Robot Killer

One of the keystones of the Agile Methods is automated testing. In Agile Projects requirements are expressed as executable tests. These tests are written in a high level language that is easily understood by business analysts and stakeholders. The tests are written by collaboration between the business analysts, QA, and the developers. These tests are accumulated on an intranet site and can be run by any project stakeholder at any time. The number of tests passing gives a clear indication of what is working, what isn't working, and how much progress the team is making on a day to day basis.
In this talk the speaker demonstrates FitNesse, an open source tool for organizing, expressing and executing acceptance tests. He describes the process for writing and executing these tests, and discusses the experiences of teams that are using this approach.
About Robert C. Martin
Robert C. Martin has been a software professional since 1970. In the last 35 years, he has worked in various capacities on literally hundreds of software projects. He has authored "landmark" books on Agile Programming, Extreme Programming, UML, Object-Oriented Programming, and C++ Programming. He has published dozens of articles in various trade journals. Today, He is one of the software industry's leading authorities on Agile software development and is a regular speaker at international conferences and trade shows. He is a former editor of the C++ Report and currently writes a monthly Craftsman column for Software Development magazine.
Mr. Martin is the founder, CEO, and president of Object Mentor Incorporated. Object Mentor is a sister company to Object Mentor International. Like OMI, Object Mentor is comprised of highly experienced software professionals who provide process improvement consulting, object-oriented software design consulting , training, and development services to major corporations around the world.

Date / Time
January 12, 2010, 7PM
Meeting Sponsors
Direct Supply Inc
Event Location
Direct Supply Inc
6663 N Industrial Road
Milwaukee, WI 53223