3-Day Test Driven Development with Uncle Bob Martin

in Philadelphia

When: February 20 - 23, 2012

Where: 101 West Elm Street
            Conshohocken, PA 19428
            Ground Floor Conference Center

Why:  Learn Clean Code, Professionalism, and Test Driven Development directly from Uncle Bob.   

In collaboration with Uncle Bob Consulting LLC, Bob Martin will be teaching the first public TDD/Ref Course of 2012 in Philadelphia.

 
This is a three-day hands-on course in which students learn The basics of Clean Code, Professionalism, Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Refactoring.
This course alternates between lecture and exercise so that students can experience, first-hand, the practices and disciplines of these fundamental topics.


Topics
o Professionalism, Craftsmanship, and Clean Code.
o Code Smells.
o De-odorizing code by using refactorings
o Unit testing, and Test Driven Development
o Design Patterns that facilitate testing and refactoring.

Are you ready for it?

o This course is for developers who want to learn, or sharpen, the skills of TDD and Refactoring.


What you'll get from it!

o Understand how to improve code without risking breakage.
o The ability to create automated test suites that run quickly.
o How to keep the code running at all times.
o How to use xUnit.
o Facility with Test Doubles such a Mocks, Fakes, and Stubs.
o Identification and remediation of code smells.
o A disciplined and practical approach to software development.


Some of the things you'll do with Bob.

This is an exercise driven course. Each topic is driven home through the use of hands-on exercises in which the
students must work together to write new code, or alter existing code to resolve, enhance and improve the quality of the
code. Students will refactor exsiting code in order to improve it. They will use XUnit to write unit tests. They will write
Mock Objects in order to isolate modules and facilitate testing.

 
Prerequisites.

You must know a programming language such as Java, C#, Javascript, C++, Ruby, etc.  Bring a laptop with your favorite development environment.  Install the appropriate xUnit testing framework (NUnit, Junit, Rspec, CPPUTest, etc.)  Or, if you'd rather, you can write your own while in class.  It won't take you more than a few seconds.

Provided Materials.

• Course lecture slides, notes and additional reference materials. (supplied by Bob)