OTUG Java SIG Special Event

Tuesday, November 27, 2001
(Note that this is not the regular third-Tuesday OTUG meeting night!)
6:30 to 7:30 PM

Room OEC-449 (4th floor), O'Shaughnessey Education Center (OEC),

Cost: Free.There is no cost to attend. Complimentary refreshments will be served.

 

Can you have it all: Better Quality, More Flexibility and Lower Cost?

Presented by Kyle R. Larson


[Java SIG] [Meeting announcement] [Meeting report]


Meeting announcement

Is your code hard to maintain and difficult to change or fix? Does changing your code seem dangerous? Does estimating the cost of those changes feel hazardous?

Come to a special November OTUG Java SIG event to learn how the best practices of test-first design and refactoring deliver better quality and more flexibility with lower cost.

JUnit is a free Java unit testing framework that is becoming extremely popular. There are versions for C++, Visual Basic, and HTML as well.

Kyle will show:


Meeting report

Java SIG presentation went well. Twelve people showed up, which was good considering the rotten weather.

Started at 6:40 and went until 7:30. Then questions with full group for 15 minutes, then interesting discussions until about 9:00 with a few interested stragglers. Lots of XP questions afterwards. A lot of fun.

I got the following suggestions for what topics are of interest from folks there:

On non-OTUG nights, starting SIG meeting at 6:30 was agreeable to most everyone.


Speaker Information

Kyle R. Larson specializes in development, mentoring, and training for object-oriented systems using agile methods. He has practiced test-first design using JUnit for over three years. Kyle works for Advanced Technologies Integration (ATI). ATI will be providing light refreshments for the evening.


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