"Acceptance Testing with FitNesse"

One of most important practices of TDD and XP is acceptance testing. This is
the practice that closes the feedback loop on functionality and
completeness. And yet this practice is also one of the hardest to implement.
Indeed, most teams neglect this practice because they feel it's too
difficult to achieve.

FitNesse is an open-source acceptance testing tool in the same way that
JUnit is an open-source unit testing tool. Based on Ward Cunningham's FIT
framework, FitNesse makes it easy for customers, business analysts, and
testers to write and run acceptance tests, while also making it easy for
programmers to bind those tests to the application.

This talk will describe the practice of acceptance testing, and provide a
demonstration of FitNesse.

AGENDA:

6:00 - 6:30 PM Networking and refreshments

6:30 - 6:35 PM Announcements and door prize giveaways

6:35 - 7:45 PM Presentation

SPEAKER

ROBERT C. MARTIN is President of Object Mentor Inc. Martin and his team of
software consultants use Object-Oriented Design, Patterns, UML, Agile
Methodologies, and eXtreme Programming with worldwide clients. He is the
author of the best-selling book Designing Object-Oriented C++ Applications
Using the Booch Method (Prentice Hall, 1995), Chief Editor of, Pattern
Languages of Program Design 3 (Addison Wesley, 1997), Editor of, More C++
Gems (Cambridge, 1999), and co-author of XP in Practice, with James Newkirk
(Addison-Wesley, 2001). He was Editor in Chief of the C++ Report from 1996
to 1999. He is a featured speaker at international conferences and trade
shows.

His most recent books are the Jolt Award winning Agile Software Development,
Principles, Patterns, and Practices and UML for Java Programmers.

Robert Martin will also be speaking on Design Principles, Design Patterns,
and Agile Practices at the Rocky Mountain Software Symposium, May 21-23.

SPONSORS

The May 2004 meeting sponsors are:

- Object Mentor (http://www.objectmentor.com)
- Addison-Wesley (www.awprofessional.com)
- Softpro Books (http://www.softpro.com)
- Qwest (http://www.qwest.com)

The meeting refreshments will be provided by Object Mentor on behalf of the
upcoming XP Agile Universe 2004 conference (http://www.xpuniverse.com).

DIRECTIONS

The Qwest auditorium is at their building on the corner of 17th and Curtis
at 1005 17th Street. At street level, to the right of the escalators, are
doors leading to elevators. Take an elevator to the "A" level (Auditorium).
If those doors are locked, you can take the exterior escalators to Level 1
and enter via doors to the right of the escalator landing. If these doors
are locked, go to the main building lobby which is on Level 1 if you walk
straight from the escalator landing.

In addition to street parking, there is an outside parking lot on the East
side of the Qwest building that costs a flat $6 after 4pm. Several other
lots are within a few blocks and covered parking can be found in the Tabor
Center for around $4.

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