Agile Engineering XP Workshop : Agile Engineering Practices for Team Members
Who Should Attend/Prerequisites
Developers, Senior Developers, Development Leads, Systems Architects, Development Managers, and anyone interested in learning more about Agile Engineering methods.
Class Size Limit: 25 (Minimum 10)
Course Overview
This two-day Agile Engineering course provides participants with the skills necessary to write better code with fewer defects and to respond quickly to changing requirements. You will learn to use a deliberate and disciplined approach to tackle any development challenge and produce reliable, robust and verifiable applications. This course combines multimedia based instruction, class discussion and intense hands-on exercises to teach you the core concepts and tools of Agile Engineering and XP/Extreme Programming methods.
You will learn how to effectively and confidently support agile development projects by seeing how to quickly transform customer requirements into concise and verifiable development tasks, to accurately estimate timelines and to quickly produce strong results. You will acquire the skills needed to provide working applications to your customers faster and to write to today’s requirements and prepare for tomorrows changes.
This course is taught by leading Agile practitioners with decades of real-world industry experience at companies ranging from small businesses to the Fortune 100. Exercises, demonstrations, facilitated discussions, case studies, tool and template examples and more are interwoven throughout the course to illustrate the principles being taught in a comprehensive fashion interactively tailored to each class’s particular needs.
Agenda
Understanding Agile Engineering
- The Case for Change
- About Agile
- Requirements
- Design
- Testing
- Documentation
Test Driven Development
- Unit vs Acceptance Testing
- Acceptance Testing - Black box functional testing of Use Cases
- Unit Testing - verifies "units" of source code function as expected
- Mock Objects
- Fixtures
- Writing Tests
- Testing legacy code
- Which comes first the code or the test?
Design and Refactoring
- Design Patterns
- Frameworks
- Coding to refactor
- Deprecation and backwards compatibility
Agile Development Tools
- IDE's
- Development Frameworks
- Testing Frameworks
- Continuous Integration
- Build and Test Management
How to work on an Agile Team
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Pair Programming
- Working in a Non-Agile Workplace
- Documenting and Commenting
Advanced Topics
- Peer Review
- Metrics and Reporting
- Others as Requested and Prioritized by the Class
- Teleworking
Cost:
$1495 per attendee.
Early Bird Registration - By 08-08-2008 $1295 per attendee