The course has a good balance of interactive lectures and hands-on exercises. The attendees are expected to pair-up and work on the lab exercises. The instructor will assist the attendees as they work on the exercises. The objective of the course is for the attendees to gain an in depth practical knowledge of the concepts so they can put them to immediate use on real projects.
Influence of TDD on Agility and sustainability
Test Driving your Design
Mocking Out Dependencies
Test Driving Code for Thread Safety
Functional Testing
Behavior Driven Design
Measuring Code Quality
Refactoring your code
Continuous Integration
Agile Design
Workshop
A 4-hours hands-on workshop that allows the attendees to take a problem and go through 30-minutes iterations of evolving the design. This workshop is intended to help the attendees learn the benefits of TDD and evolutionary design.
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.