Thursday
Room 4
11:40 - 12:40
(UTC+02)
Talk (60 min)
Creating Automated Tests for a gnarly application: Lessons from The Trenches
In an ideal world, code is of good quality, automated tests focus on key behavior, and children are well behaved. The real world sadly is sometimes harsh.
In this presentation the speaker will share the lessons learned on a large scale, high performance, C++ application that had to be brought in quickly to better standards, including having significant automated tests where there was none. We will discuss the tools used, the approaches taken, the myths that had to be fought, and the results that were achieved through hard work and some help of AI.
Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You may read more about Venkat and Agile Developer, Inc. at http://agiledeveloper.com.