Agile SD

April 1st, 7:30pm – Joint meeting with SDRuby @ UCSD

First up, Steve Ross from Agile San Diego will give an introduction to Behavior Driven Development using Ruby, Cucumber, and rSpec. This will be a practical how-to for developers who have not yet integrated Behavior Driven Development into their workflow. You’ll see a straightforward, concrete example of outside-in, spec-first development, and there will be a demo of creating a simple Rails web app using behavior driven methodologies.

Then Rob Kaufman of SDRuby will give an overview of the diverse landscape of common Ruby testing frameworks, beyond Cucumber and rSpec. He will lay out the pros and cons of each, and how they can be best applied to different types of applications. He will give his thoughts on the philosophy behind each of the frameworks and then open it up for discussion.

After which we will convene at Rock Bottom for some brews with our Ruby friends, about 10pm. Please join us there even if you can’t make the meeting.

The meeting starts at 7:30 in the Computer Science & Engineering Building at UCSD. To park on the UCSD campus, you must purchase a $3 parking pass. Map and parking directions are here: http://bit.ly/blhraC

Come represent Agile San Diego!