Interview with James Bach
James Bach talks about the biggest challenges faced by software testers today.
Building Twitter with Grails in 40 Minutes
In this session Graeme Rocher, SpringSource’s Head of Grails Development, will demonstrate how the basics of Twitter could have been built using Grails and JMS in a mere 40 minutes. A fast paced and code-driven presentation, Graeme will build a Twitter-like application from scratch using Grails and its rapid application …
NGourd Presentation
NGourd, a BDD framework for C#, is presented by Michael Minutillo (@wolfbyte) at the Australian Virtual Alt.Net meeting, May 11 2009. NGourd is designed heavily influenced by the Cucumber tool from the ruby world. The intention is to create a clean separation between the intent of a specification versus it’s …
ASP.NET MVC and T4 Templates Code Generation
David Hayden showed how to leverage per project T4 Templates to generate custom controllers and views in ASP.NET MVC Web Applications. Without writing a single line of code, David was able to create a CRUD controller and associated views to handle create, read, update, delete, and list functionality against a …
Embedded Technical Tester
The idea of a tester-developer isn’t new, although they are often hidden in teams as the “automation guruâ€, the “(testing) tool smithâ€, or “Senior Test Engineerâ€. These are testers who have a solid background in QA tools and techniques, but also have a development background and can write automated scripts …
The 7 Habits for Exceptional Performance
Improvements in Web site performance are similar to improvements in energy or fuel efficiency: We make great progress, yet we end up consuming more. Learn how to balance design and features with the need for speed. This session highlights Yahoo!’s latest research results and performance breakthroughs. Apple’s iPhone has changed …