We will be having a meeting in September. The meeting will be on Tues. 9/30 (the last possible date to have a September meeting). The meeting will be at Navigator Coffee Squadron on Gate (see the previous posts for map). The meeting will be at 7:00PM. The meeting will last for two hours (or so). The meeting will showcase a presentation by our own L4rk. He will talk about stuff. This stuff will likely include stuff about Selenium testing with Rails. Should be good stuff. If you do not attend the meeting you will miss the meeting.
See you there. And remember, l4rk loves you. (and so does Big Tiger)
Testing as Communication, Real-World Techniques
- who: Jon “Lark” Larkowski
- where: Navigator Coffee Squadron, 7643 Gate Pkwy, Jacksonville, FL 32256 (904) 928-0048
- when: Tuesday, September 30, 7-9pm
This session covers how Hashrocket, an experienced Ruby on Rails consultancy, uses a wide range of real-world testing techniques and agile methodologies every day to satisfy client customer requirements. It will describe the life cycle of our testing workflow, from story capture to customer acceptance. This includes an overview of: fine-grained requirements gathering in “user story” form; how we manage stories and communicate transparently with the client using a web-based tracking tool; how story-driven development is expressed as test-driven development; and, how we enhance client/developer communication by writing plain-text tests in the vocabulary of the customer’s domain. In this session, you will learn how to turn natural-language requirements into running code that both customer and developer alike can communicate around; how to express customer requirements at the appropriate levels of abstraction, from high-level integration tests all the way down to granular unit tests; and, how to properly employ the latest tools, such as RSpec, StoryRunner, Selenium, Webrat, and fixture factories.
