Coding from Examples - a Dojo

This evening, hosted by RIGD-LOXIA (https://www.rigd-loxia.nl/), is filled with a coding dojo run by Wim Heemskerk (http://xpday.net/Xpday2014/XPDays/Program.html#presenter_277) & Martin van Dijken (http://xpday.net/Xpday2014/XPDays/Program.html#presenter_278). We will let you experience Behaviour Driven Development and Specification by Example from a coding perspective; we’ll practice coding outside in, driven by examples. Warning: this just might make you like TDD.

We will hand out a set of properly-drafted scenarios with the rules to a small game. Using these scenarios, you will experience what it feels like to work inwards driven by acceptance tests. You will walk away from this dojo knowing what (A)TDD from the outside in feels like.

It is hard to get up to speed with Behaviour Driven Development, although the concepts are explained easily enough. To do it right, you have to learn how to interview your business users, choose your examples, properly write them up as scenarios, choose a framework, and only when you’ve got all that covered, you get to code to your scenarios. For this dojo we’ll be sure to arrange all these preparations for you, so you can hit the ground coding.

N.B. We will be coding, which we'll prepare for Java. Please bring a laptop with your favorite development environment (IDE) installed. Not everyone needs to have both Java knowledge and a laptop, as we will encourage pairing, but well.. you do take a risk showing up without.

Expect the actual dojo to start around 18:30. (I.e. if you walk in by then, you'll have missed the food :P.)

This session is a try-out for the XP Days Benelux (http://xpday.net/Xpday2014/XPDays/Program.html#session_262)