Spring Dallas User Group

Venkat did an awesome job with his Spring into Unit Testing presentation. If you would like to get your hands on his presentation you can get it here on his site.

Welcome back again as we reset for the new year and finally get to have our first meeting for 2007.

ABSTRACT:
Test Driving Development is a valuable technique that has several benefits. However, unit testing is hard when your code has dependencies-this often becomes a quick excuse to give up on TDD. This example driven Zero Powerpoint (ZePo) presentation will help you spring into unit test your Spring applications. We will look at techniques to realize good unit testing, and focus on effective use of mock objects and frameworks to help you toss mock objects for your spring application.

BIO:
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc. has trained and mentored more than 3000 software developers in US, Canada, and Europe. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at international conferences and user groups. Venkat is the author of “.NET Gotchas” (O’Reilly) and coauthor of “Practices of an Agile Developer” (Pragmatic Bookshelf). He has been an NFJS speaker since 2002.

WHEN:
February 21st (3rd Wednesday)

• Social - 6:30 PM
• Meeting - 7:00 PM

WHO TO TELL:
Tell your friends in the office who are interested in Spring and testing.

WHERE TO GO:
Our meetings are at Nerdbooks in Richardson TX. Directions can be found on their website.
*** Nerdbooks is our location sponsor and is providing a meeting place. Show up early and take a look at their large selection of Java related books.

– Erik Weibust
– Andy Hoffman