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Register now for StS 2004 so that you can hear James Foster on making apps test friendly:

Building a 'Test-Friendly' Application
presentation
James Foster
Monday 2:00:00 pm to 2:45:00 pm

Abstract: Your manager has just seen a demo of a popular automated testing tool, and decided it will solve your quality problems. The tool records a user's interaction with your application and then plays back those interactions so that applications "work flawlessly the first time and remain reliable." Of course, the devil is in the details, and you've been assigned to deal with the details. What happens next? In this experience report you will see how a Smalltalk application was modified so that the automated tests worked when a window has hundreds of widgets, many with the same label. Find out why the flexibility of Smalltalk prompted a WinRunner consultant to say that this was what he wished all development environments could do.

Bio: James Foster learned FORTRAN in 1971, Smalltalk in 1993, and a few other languages in between. He has been developing healthcare systems since 1987 and is presently Software Architect with BulldogIT. He has presented at prior Smalltalk Solutions and at OOPSLA conferences.

See you in Seattle!