September 2014 Slides and Notes

[david....@agileaustin.org]

Thanks everyone for attending the September Dev SIG. Since there was not much content on the slides, I thought I would instead post some notes of what we discussed...

Steve Donie presented a brief overview of Mockito

The group discussed using Mockito (for Java) and also that Spock for mocking as perhaps a better replacement. Also mentioned was PowerMock.

We also discussed that too much mocking is a sign of a poor Design. Also, we discussed "Why use mocks at all".

Finally, the group selected a top 3 from a proposed set of topics and we have a new backlog of topics to discuss.

1. Tech Debt - An introduction to a game that help demonstrate different strategies for tackling tech debt.

2. Modern Javascript - Node.js, client-side MVC (Angular, BackBone, Ember), etc.

3. Generalists and Specialists - How to follow Agile without everyone becoming generalists.

The rest of the backlog includes:

Virtualization for Developers - How can VMs make you a more productive developer
Emerging Best practices for applying Agile/Scrum
Estimation - It shouldn’t be so hard, but it can be.
Rapid-Fire Questions (and Answers) (see the latest DevOpsSIG, stealing the idea)
Emerging Languages - not strictly languages, but more broadly concepts that seem new and promising as seen in emerging languages.
Spock for Mocking

Guice for Dependency Injection

David Croley

[Mike Lepine]

And the Keep Austin Agile 2015 Conference site is here. Speaker submissions are open until 12/1. If interested, go to the speakers page - http://2015conf.agileaustin.org/?q=speakers.

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[Steve Donie]

Thanks everyone for a great discussion!

David - after the meeting I was talking with Matt Shostak and he and I were wondering if there were presenters lined up for each of the backlog items or not.

Thanks!

Steve Donie

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:02 PM, <david....@agileaustin.org> wrote:

[David Croley]

There are no specific presenters lined up for the topics except for the Tech Debt one, which I have presented recently at a conference. Anyone should feel free to jump in and present on one of these if they are interested. You don't have to be an expert, just help jump start a discussion.

David

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