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Register for StS 2004 so that you can learn all about FIT from Dave Astels:

The FIT testing framework
tutorial (extra cost applies)
Dave Astels: AdaptionSoft
Monday 2:00:00 pm to 5:30:00 pm

Abstract: FIT is the latest gift from Ward Cunningham (who was involved in the beginnings of CRC cards, design patterns, test-driven development, Extreme Programming, wiki, and assorted other important things... and a Smalltalk master to boot). FIT was designed to write customer acceptance tests. The idea is that anyone (including testers and even end users) can use FIT to write tests for the requirements before any amount of design or programming had begun, moving testers from an afterthought to an integral part of the development process.

This is possible because FIT allows you to separate the data related to a test from the code required to load the data into the system being tested. In other words, test data can be written separately from (and in a different language than) the code. Subsequently, that data is used to exercise the system and verify its behavior.

In FIT, the test data is represented as a table. Test data can range in complexity from simple rows of input and expected results to a sequence of actions and checks for testing a user interface.

While SUnit provides a framework and tools to test at the unit level, Fit provides the same for testing at a higher level: functional, system, acceptance, etc. This tutorial is hands-on, so please bring a laptop with either VisualWorks (7.1 or 7.2) or Squeak (3.6 or later) installed. It may be helpful to contact the speaker and get a copy of the FIT software to pre-install as well.

Bio: Dave has over 20 years of experience in the software field. For over 14 years he has been using object-oriented technologies almost exclusively (including Smalltalk, C , and Java).

Dave has been studying, practicing, teaching, evangelizing, and coaching XP and Agile Processes since 1998.

Dave co-authored "A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming" (ISBN 0-13-067482-6) and authored "A Practical Guide to Test-driven Development" (ISBN 0-13-101649-0), both with Prentice Hall. He's recently written an article of Fit for "Better Software" magazine, which appeared this spring.

Dave is a founding partner at Adaption Software, Inc.. Adaption's offers a variety of OOAD, eXtreme Programming, and Test-driven Development related services, including training, mentoring, and outsourcing.

Dave attends, and speaks at, a variety of conferences including the XP conference in Europe, JAOO, SDWest, SD Best Practices, XPAU, Smalltalk Solutions, and OOPSLA.

Dave was largely responsible for the Smalltalk port of Fit.

His favourite quote:
Question: "Why are languages like C , C#, and Java so prevalent?"
Dave Ungar: "Why do people smoke tobacco?"

See you in Seattle!