The next session was Alan Ridlehoover, a developer for P&P. He was going to talk about agile testing guidance, but that wasn’t the metaphor he ended up going with. Instead he choose: Weed and Feed your software.
He states that agile software practices is like weed killer. If architects were gardeners planning a park they would have to ensure that bugs and weeds don’t take over their garden. The metaphor means that we need to ensure that we use good techniques to ensure that bugs and poor design doesn’t overtake our systems.
The first session after lunch today was presented by Brad Wilson. It looks like Brad wins the number of presentations award, he’s presenting three times over the week. Brad is going to talk about doing Test Driven Development with complex UIs. He’s going to be talking about the MVP pattern and how this will help provide the hooks to test right up to the UI, but not really the actual UI.
The lunch session today was given by John Socha-Leialoha who is a consultant working with P&P. He’s working on a research style project around gathering requirements. This isn’t a product that is planned to be produced, just some research to see if it is something that would be good to do.
First off he talked about dealing with the CAB (Composite UI Application Block). He set up a site called cabpedia.