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Roy Osherove, Author of "The Art Of Unit Testing"

 Roy  Osherove

The chief architect at Typemock, Roy Osherove is one of the original ALT.NET organizers. He consults and trains teams worldwide on the gentle art of unit testing and test-driven development. He frequently speaks at international conferences such as TechEd and JAOO.

Roy is the author of the book The Art of Unit Testing, and writes about subjects such as unit testing, TDD Team Leadership and agile development on his blog is at ISerializable.com.

Presentation: "Beautiful teams and leaders"

Time: Thursday 15:00 - 16:00

Location: Rutherford Room

Abstract: In this talk we'll explore what makes teams great, productive and effective, and also explore the idea of team leadership and how successful team leads can influence and drive, grow and coach their team mates to be more effective, successful and happy at their job. we review both technical and people practices and princinples at the team and the team lead level: from automation to communication and coaching.

Presentation: "Cogs in the machine: testing code embedded in an impenetrable framework"

Time: Friday 12:00 - 13:00

Location: Westminster Suite

Abstract: In this talk I'll describe a technique for unit-testing application code that runs inside impenetrable frameworks (such as Sharepoint, Silverlight, and BizTalk) that make such code inaccessible. We know we should write code that is easy to test because it has clean boundaries, but sometimes the vendors we work with make that kind of modularity just too hard. I will talk about how we can test such plug-in code by faking its environment in memory, simulating the underlying engines. As an example, I'll be showing SilverUnit, a framework to test code written for the Silverlight framework without driving through the browser. I'll talk about how the need for this sort of testing arose during silverlight development and how it allowed me to make sure my silverlight code worked as expected. even the UI logic.