SPECIAL EVENTS

BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER GATHERINGS

Build-Your-Own BOF
Tuesday, July 24, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Prairie Center

We provide the food and drinks -- You provide the topic. This is your BoF to create!

Applying Modeling Effectively in Practice
Wednesday, July 25, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Prairie Center

Terry Quatrani, IBM's UML Evangelist, will lead you in a discussion about: How do you get the benefits of modeling without some of the drawbacks? How do you remain agile yet compliant at the same time? What modeling techniques are actually useful in practice? To what extent do we need to model? Come and share your experiences with your colleagues.

The Unified Process Applied: Experience from the Trenches
Thursday, July 26, 7:30 PM–9:00 PM
Prairie Center

Scott Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM The Unified Process comes in many flavors: RUP, OpenUP, Agile UP, Essential UP and Enteprise UP to name a few. How are people succeeding with the UP? How are they running into trouble? How agile are they really? Come and share your experiences with others.

HAPPY HOURS!

Wednesday, July 25, 5:00 PM–6:00 PM
Thursday, July 26, 5:00 PM–6:00 PM

Join us in the Prairie Center after class for food & drinks! This is the perfect time to mingle with your fellow attendees, conference sponsors and your favorite speakers.

PANEL DISCUSSION

Tough Problems in Test-Driven Development
Thursday, July 26, 12:30 PM–1:30 PM
Room CC12

Unit testing and test-first programming are some of the most effective techniques for software development invented in the last ten years. Given test-driven development’s widely recognized power, it seems wise to use it as extensively as possible. However, are there any areas where it doesn’t work? What about applications that are tightly coupled to databases or ones that run in J2EE application servers? What about those that display GUIs? Can these applications be developed using test-first techniques, or are there some problem domains where TDD fails? Bring your questions and war stories for a discussion on the thorniest problems in TDD.

Panel members: Scott Ambler, Elliotte Rusty Harold & Robert C. Martin