Ron Jeffries has had to reschedule his visit to Denver next week. Ron will
present his talk in two months at the June 27th Agile Denver meeting.

On Monday, April 25th, Agile Denver will host Paul Hamill, author of O'Reilly's
"Unit Test Frameworks". The meeting will still be held at the Qwest Auditorium
in Downtown Denver. Doors open at 6:00pm for networking and refreshments.

Agile is a sea change, refocusing software teams on quality and speed. Its
impact on the practice of software development is already being compared to that
of object-oriented design. Paul will present best practices and new information
about a key Agile development practice, Test Driven Development (TDD), and the
unit test frameworks and related tools that enable it.

Paul's talk will cover:

- Brief overview of TDD and how it fits into Agile
- A review of unit test frameworks (the xUnits) for popular development
languages
- Recent and upcoming developments in TDD and test frameworks
- Useful patterns for effective unit test development
- How unit tests interrelate with requirements and software design
- Live demo of TDD in practice

Paul is a highly experienced software developer with experience developing code
using C/C++, Java, and other languages. He has a BS ME from Cornell University
and an MS EE from the University of Colorado, and is the published co-author of
several academic papers on advanced CAD software.

His recent experience includes work on a number of small entrepreneurial
software development teams relying on eXtreme Programming (XP) and unit testing
methodologies. He is most recently the author of "Unit Test Frameworks" which
covers the most commonly used frameworks from the xUnit family, including JUnit
for Java, CppUnit for C++, NUnit for .NET, PyUnit for Python, and XMLUnit.

AGENDA:

6:00 - 6:25 PM Networking and refreshments
6:25 - 6:35 PM Announcements
6:35 - 7:45 PM Paul Hamill
7:45 - 7:50 PM Door prize giveaways

SPONSORS

April 2005 meeting sponsors are:

- Rally Software Development (http://www.rallydevelopment.com)
- O'Reilly Media (http://www.oreilly.com)
- Addison-Wesley (http://www.awprofessional.com)
- Softpro Books (http://www.softpro.com)
- Qwest (http://www.qwest.com)

DIRECTIONS

The Qwest auditorium is in the Qwest building on the corner of 17th and
Curtis. The street address is 1005 17th Street. Take the exterior escalators
facing 17th from street level to Level 1. You can then access the elevators
via doors to the right of the escalator landing. Take an elevator to Level A
for the auditorium. If these doors are locked, go to the main building lobby
which is on Level 1 if you proceed 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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