Facilitating Impact Mapping

Featuring Gojko Adzic

In this talk, Gojko presents early results of an ongoing research on how teams around the world apply impact mapping to speed up time to market and get maximum impact for minimum effort. You'll learn about five important ideas to ensure effective impact mapping sessions.

Impact Mapping

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Have you struggled to split user stories into small but valuable chunks? Do you have problems prioritising stories or getting a commitment from business stakeholders on what they want to achieve? Do you have issues deciding when a story is done or how many other stories you really need to achieve...

Serverless Apps with AWS Lambda

Featuring Gojko Adzic

This is a practical workshop for developers and architects that want to take advantage of the latest trends in cloud computing: serverless apps and cloud functions. Through hands-on exercises and teamwork, you’ll learn about using AWS Lambda and API Gateway to create responsive event-driven...

Painless visual testing

Featuring Gojko Adzic

When visuals come under test automation, the outcome rarely justifies the cost. Visual tests tend to be too brittle, to difficult to maintain, and too slow to execute for quick iterative delivery cycles. However, recent improvements in cloud computing and browser capabilities make it possible to...

Serverless Apps with AWS Lambda

Featuring Gojko Adzic

This is a practical workshop for developers and architects that want to take advantage of the latest trends in cloud computing: serverless apps and cloud functions. Through hands-on exercises and teamwork, you’ll learn about using AWS Lambda and API Gateway to create responsive event-driven...

Impact Mapping

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Have you struggled to split user stories into small but valuable chunks? Do you have problems prioritising stories or getting a commitment from business stakeholders on what they want to achieve? Do you have issues deciding when a story is done or how many other stories you really need to achieve...

Painless visual testing

Featuring Gojko Adzic

When visuals come under test automation, the outcome rarely justifies the cost. Visual tests tend to be too brittle, to difficult to maintain, and too slow to execute for quick iterative delivery cycles. However, recent improvements in cloud computing and browser capabilities make it possible to...

BDD From the Back of a Napkin

Featuring Gojko Adzic

When it comes to visuals, and explaining how things should look, it is very easy to make and discuss examples, but until now it was horribly difficult to cross the last mile and automate those checks. Layout and look and feel tests were historically too brittle, to difficult to maintain, and too...

Specification By Example: From User Stories to Acceptance Tests

Featuring Gojko Adzic

RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW

Specification by example is a collaborative approach to defining requirements and tests for based on capturing realistic examples instead of abstract statements. It is the cornerstone of any successful requirements and testing and requirements strategy with agile and lean...

Impact Mapping with Innovation Games

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Impact Mapping is a lightweight method for strategic planning in product and project development. Although seemingly simple and intuitive, many teams fail to get the most out of it because they jump to conclusions too quickly and skip over important discussions. Gojko will talk about how to avoid...

Snow White and the 777.777.777 Dwarfs

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Gartner estimates that during the next few years, 50% of all of enterprise IT organisations will have hybrid half-cloud half-on-premise deployment, and that by 2019 30% of the software will be cloud-only. For software quality, of course, this creates a challenge. Companies no longer control all...

Intro to Tank warfare API

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Intro to Tank warfare API

Introduction to AWS Lambda and API Gateway

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Gojko Adzic will kick off the day with an introduction to AWS Lambda and API Gateway

The Future of Automated Testing

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Gojko presents emerging trends in the testing tools space and predicts how you'll be using tools differently ten years from now.

Make Impacts, Not Software

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Software is everywhere today, and countless software products and projects die a slow death without ever making any impact. Today’s planning and roadmap techniques expect the world to stand still while we deliver, and set products and projects up for failure from the very start. Even when...

Make Impacts, Not Software

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Software is everywhere today, and countless software products and projects die a slow death without ever making any impact. Today’s planning and roadmap techniques expect the world to stand still while we deliver, and set products and projects up for failure from the very start. Even when...

Make Impacts, Not Software

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Software is everywhere today, and countless software products and projects die a slow death without ever making any impact. Today’s planning and roadmap techniques expect the world to stand still while we deliver, and set products and projects up for failure from the very start. Even when...

Continuous delivery gone bad

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Remember the last time a PDF reader insisted on stopping whatever you are doing to update itself for security reasons, half of the internet came down with a browser update, or a library packager insisting on pulling the latest version of some useless crap just to compile your code? Now multiply...

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Agile Testing and BDD eXchange Park Bench Panel

Featuring Gojko Adzic and Martine Devos

Put your questions to a panel of experts at the end of day one of the Agile Testing and BDD eXchange. This panel will be led by programme lead Gojko Adzic who will take questions from the floor. We are excited to welcome guest panelist Martine Devos who will join speakers and workshop leaders...

Continuous delivery gone bad

Featuring Gojko Adzic

With Continuous delivery having become so popular, do you ever consider what happens to the ones on the other side of the stick? Find out what we can do to make the pain go away and still ship frequently.

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Flexible Scope

Featuring Gojko Adzic and Christian Hassa

Join Christian Hassa and Gojko Adzic to discuss how to convince people to embrace flexible scope, not only for startup environments but for big enterprise projects as well.

Bond Villain Guide to Software Testing

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Would you like to learn how to make your software testing practices more effective? And how to use your testing strategy to better capture and reflect customer requirements? Gojko Adzic takes a critical look at the effectiveness of current software testing practices and proposes strategies to...

#bddxnyc Park bench Panel Discussion

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Whilst enjoying some pizza & drinks, we'll hold the #BDDxNYC ParkBench Panel discussion, which will focus on any topic you like to discuss. You will be able to ask your questions to all #BDDxNYC speakers, and are also actively encouraged to join the panel and express your opinion or share...

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Make impact, not software

Featuring Gojko Adzic and Daniel Terhorst-North

At the recent BDD eXchange event in London, Gojko and Dan North, the originator of BDD, staged an impromptu state-of-the-union discussion about the present and future of BDD. Dan introduced his latest body of work, Accelerated Agile, describing it as accelerating delivery from months to minutes....

Make impact, not software

Featuring Gojko Adzic

There has to be a better way to deliver! Gojko presents a possible solution, impact mapping, an innovative strategic planning method that can help you make an impact with software.

Visualising quality

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Join Gojko Adzic for an exploration of different ways to measure and visualise quality of software.

Agile Product Management with Effect Maps

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Effect Mapping is a technique for high level project visualization -- providing an excellent level of visibility to stakeholders and helps drive software projects towards delivering the right product with a high level of quality. In this talk, Gojko will present Effect Mapping with several...

Long Term Value of Acceptance Tests

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Most of the discussion on automated acceptance tests focuses on immediate benefits in development and defect detection or regression testing. But that's not nearly all you can get from your tests. Gojko will talk about the long term benefits of acceptance tests and what you need to do to get...

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What makes a good feature file

Featuring David De Florinier and Gojko Adzic

In this interactive workshop, Gojko and David will go through examples of good and bad feature files and distill with your help what makes a good feature file. We'll focus on topics such as domain language, technical specifications vs business processes, self-explanatory files, specifications...

The Long-term Value of Acceptance Tests

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Most of the discussion on automated acceptance tests focuses on immediate benefits in development and defect detection or regression testing. But that's not nearly all you can get from your tests.

Breaking the TDD mould

Featuring Gojko Adzic

The basics of Test Driven Development are now well understood and widely popular, but many teams never move beyond them. In this SkillsCast video, recorded at a Skills Matter In-the-Brain session, Gojko Adzic talks about ideas that will help you take the next step and move beyond basic TDD and...

Winning Big with Specification by Example

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Lessons Learned from 50 Successful Projects. After an extensive research of agile acceptance testing implementations for his new book, Gojko Adzic presents great war stories that will inspire you to improve your software development process.

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Cucumber for web applications

Featuring Gojko Adzic and David De Florinier

Gojko Adzic and David de Florinier demonstrate why Cucumber is a great tool to specify and test web applications. We'll briefly go over the basics of Cucumber and then show how it allows developers and testers to create an efficient UI test automation framework.

DDD, TDD, BDD

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Domain Driven Design is often misunderstood as something that advocates a lot of upfront design and at odds with the evolutionary design principles of test driven development. In this presentation, Gojko Adzic will talk about reconciling the two approaches and getting the best of both worlds, and...

Anatomy of a good acceptance test

Featuring Gojko Adzic

In this interactive exercise, you will learn what makes a good acceptance test and how to solve the most common problems with such tests.

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Interactive Agile Acceptance Testing Clinic

Featuring David Evans and Gojko Adzic

Interested in Agile acceptance testing? Come to this interactive workshop with your own test examples to be discussed, critiqued and improved upon in a group setting.

Using Cucumber for BDD and Agile Acceptance Testing

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Gojko Adzic, author of our popular Agile Acceptance Testing Workshop, will present Cucumber, a tool for behaviour-driven development and agile acceptance testing. Gojko will demonstrate how to use Cucumber for Java, .NET and Ruby applications, talk about new Cucumber features and best practices...

Key Technical Differences between Cloud and In-house Deployments

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Neuri: ‘A short guide to key technical differences between cloud and in-house deployments’ - Base on his experience of moving one of his projects deeper into the clouds.

Challenge requirements

Featuring Gojko Adzic

In this presentation, Gojko Adzic will try to convince you that the established models of gathering requirements in software projects are bad and present an alternative model that leads to much less rework, more consistent specifications with less functional gaps and ultimately happier customers....

DDD and relational databases: the value object dilemma

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Value objects are one of the corner-stones of domain-driven design but teams often struggle to use this pattern efficiently when they need to be stored to relational databases.

Space Based Programming

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Space-based architectures are an alternative to the traditional n-tier model for enterprise applications. Instead of a vertical tier partitioning, space based applications are partitioned horizontally into self-sufficient units.

Acceptance testing in English with Concordion .NET

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Concordion is an acceptance testing tool that enables developers, testers and business analysts to build executable specifications in free-form HTML. In this talk, Gojko Adzic introduces Concordion.NET, the .NET port of Concordion, and demonstrates it with examples.

Casino In The Clouds

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Gojko Adzic (AGL) presents an experience report from a recent online gaming project involving an extensive use of cloud and grid technologies.

DDD in a distributed world

Featuring Gojko Adzic

In this talk, Gojko Adzic presents practical advise how to harness the power of DDD in a distributed environment to produce software that runs faster, scales better and evolves easier.

FitNesse, TextTest & Robot Framework

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Gojko delivered a very informative talk about various agile-testing tools that are typically supportive of the development team and yet very business-oriented at the same time.

FitNesse.NET workshop

Featuring Gojko Adzic

This practical workshop teaches participants how to automate acceptance tests and connect them to the domain code efficiently with FitNesse.NET, covering topics such as basic fixtures, mapping to domain services and classes and best practices for FitNesse.NET.

Specification by example and Agile acceptance testing

Featuring Gojko Adzic

In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing to improve the communication between stakeholders and software implementation teams. Learn how to distil the specification and how to write and manage acceptance tests efficiently.

Slim - the future of FitNesse

Featuring Gojko Adzic

SliM (Simple List Invocation Method) is a new test runner that does not have dependency on FIT. It promises to bring more compatibility and easier platform porting. Instead of running all the HTML processing, comparisons, and colorizing in the System Under Test (SUT), SliM keeps all that...

Games in the Cloud

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Gojko Adzic talks about a multi-player casino project that started about 6 months ago. The system is deployed in the cloud and uses a processing grid. The talk is mainly about the architectural challenges faced until

Gojko Adzic-Mini-In-The-Brain

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Gojko gives a very interesting talk on one of the main problems of business software development . . .

FitNesse.NET Tips and Tricks

Featuring Gojko Adzic

FitNesse is the leading opensource agile acceptance testing framework.

DDD and Deployment Challenges

Featuring Gojko Adzic

In this session, Gojko Adzic talks about strategies, challenges and common pitfalls of using Domain-Driven Design for...

Welcome to the OpenSource.NET eXchange

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Co-organiser & Trackhost Gojko Adzic will introduce this mini-conference on OpenSource .NET technologies, aimed at members of the ALT.NET community talking about their favourite OpenSource .NET tools that increase programmer productivity and help us do our work better.

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Test Driven Development in .NET

Featuring Gojko Adzic and David Ross

In this talk, Chris Roff, David Ross and Gojko Adzic present tools and techniques for Test Driven Development in .NET.

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Asynchronous Enterprise.NET Applications with NServiceBus

Featuring Gojko Adzic and David De Florinier

NServiceBus is an opensource asynchronous architecture platform that significantly simplifies programming and coordinating messaging-based asynchronous applications in .NET.

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Dependency Injection with Castle Windsor

Featuring Gojko Adzic and Mike Hadlow

Castle Windsor is the most popular opensource dependency injection framework for .NET and the foundation of the Castle Application Framework.

Script#: the .NET response to the Google Web Toolkit

Featuring Gojko Adzic

This session looks into what Script# provides to .NET Web Developers and how to use it efficiently for building powerful Ajax .NET web applications.

Agile Acceptance Testing

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Agile Acceptance Testing is an emerging technique for building a shared understanding of the domain and improving the communication between business people and software development teams. It helps us all speak the same language, produce better specifications, flush out incorrect assumptions...

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Testing Web Applications with Selenium & Selenium Remote Control

Featuring Gojko Adzic and Milan Bogdanovic

In this session Gojko and Milan will introduce Selenium and the Remote Control, looking at how we can use Selenium to automate web application testing.

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Rhino Mocks by Chris Roff

Featuring Gojko Adzic and Daniel Lucraft

Chris Roff talks about Rhino Mocks.

Subversion is the fastest growing Version Control System in open source projects.

Featuring Gojko Adzic

In this session, Gojko will talk about Subversion. Subversion is the fastest growing Version Control System in open source projects. Gojko will discuss why to use Subversion and present tools that help us use it in .NET projects. For more information on Subversion, see...

Effective Test-Driven Database Development

Featuring Gojko Adzic

In this talk, Gojko will look at why test-driven development is rarely used in database development. He will discuss the reasons behind this and present solutions and best-practises for test-driven database development.

Developing AJAX Web Applications with Castle Monorail

Featuring Gojko Adzic

David De Florinier and Gojko Adzic show how Monorail makes it easy to develop .NET based web applications with Ajax, and how to use the Castle Project to build Web 2.0 applications effectively.

Agile web development with the Castle framework

Featuring Gojko Adzic

In this talk, Gojko will introduce agile web development with the Castle project, the open source .NET framework for enterprise and Web applications. He will present all the components of the Castle framework, demonstrate how they work together and go through an exercise of building a web site...

Effective .NET TDD with FitNesse

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Goiko, who is a member of the FitNesse Community and author of the recently published book, Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse, explained how FitNesse enables software developers and business people to build a shared understanding of the domain and helps produce software that is genuinely...