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Noel Rappin

Noel Rappin
Senior Consultant, Obtiva

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Noel Rappin is a Senior Consultant at Obtiva. He is the author of “Rails Test Prescriptions: from the Pragmatic Bookshelf and “Professional Ruby on Rails” from Wrox. He has over a decade of experience in web application development. Noel is the co-author of “wxPython in Action” and O’Reilly’s “Jython Essentials”, and and has presented at RailsConf and WindyCity Rails.

Sessions

1:50pm Wednesday, 05/18/2011
Test Your Legacy Code
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 Location: Ballroom IV
Noel Rappin (Obtiva)
Average rating: ****.
(4.08, 26 ratings)
Everybody wants to do test-driven development, but switching to TDD or BDD on an existing project that doesn’t have tests presents special challenges. This session will show you how to work around dependencies that make testing legacy code so complicated. Topics include using Cucumber for black-box testing, using mock objects to limit dependencies, and using Ruby dynamism to cut through problems. Read more.
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