Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - Posts

Behavior Driven Development

Tonight's N3UG Meeting Introducing Behavior Driven Development

It's been said that Behavior-Driven Development BDD is Test-Driven Development TDD done right. In this survey talk we'll dig into this statement by crafting proper user stories with acceptance criteria and contrasting TDD tests with BDD specifications. After covering the fundamentals, we'll discuss techniques (such as mock and stub objects) and demonstrate tools for easing the BDD approach. We'll end the session by questioning how the BDD method fits into the larger context of Agile software development.

Speaker: David Laribee is President of Xclaim Software, an ISV offering document, claim, and policy management software for the commercial property and casualty insurance industry. He has 10+ years experience designing, developing, and architecting enterprise applications with Microsoft technologies.

Edit: Tonight's meeting is canceled due to Snow, so we'll do it next month.

Microsoft Office Live Developer

As Yahoo and Microsoft were exchanging messages, Bill Gates went to silicon valley yesterday for the Microsoft Office System Developers Conference. You can now see the video from his Keynote.

Bill also talked to Dan from Channel9 backstage at the ODC, but there were no corporate raider questions.

Bill talked about the Microsoft Office Live Small Business Designer Developer Community.

Join the community and you’ll receive valuable leads and a free Microsoft Office Live Developer account.