Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Agility

Jason Kerney and I are going to once again present our NMock2 Exploratory techniques presentation.   This time at the XPSD meeting on April 3rd.

See their site at XPSD.org to get the details on the group… or just read this which I just copied from their site:

Meeting Information & Location

XP San Diego meets the first Thursday of each month to informally discuss and exchange ideas. We feel we learn best from our peers, the merely curious, active practitioners, as well as experienced consultants, when they share their skills, knowledge, concerns and experiences. We encourage everyone to participate in our monthly forums and learn something new. We meet on the SAIC Corporate Campus from 6 PM to 8 PM; 10260 Campus Point Drive, a.k.a. Building C, in the fifth floor conference room. Please find parking on the street and check in with security in Building C before heading upstairs. See our mailing list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xpsandiego/) for more information.

Here is the synopsis of our talk:

“A Little Taste of NMock2 For That Smooth, Relaxing, Unit-Testing Flavor”

We’ll explore how the NMock2 library makes it easy to remove dependencies and test behaviors in unit tests, allowing you to quickly set up tests that confirm your code does what you want it to be doing.

This code-intensive presentation covers the motivation for using Mock Objects, and once we have covered the basics, we’ll show our unbelievably effective technique for using dynamic mock objects as an exploratory discovery tool for introducing characterization tests for “legacy” code (that is, code without sufficient tests as described by Michael Feathers).

NMock2 is a free, open source dynamic mock object library for .NET that can help you isolate the target and test only the localized functionality. This is very easy to do, and you can be up and running in just a few minutes. Mock objects can give you years of trouble-free pleasure that you otherwise miss out on if you don’t come to this presentation.

I hope that you can make it, or to some future meeting of the XPSD.  I always learn a lot at the XPSD meetings – the people that show up are among the best XP/Agile folks in the country.