All respectable software craftsmen make efforts to keep their coding claws sharp. And solely working 9-5 on business applications will dull one’s whit. In this session we will broaden your coding horizons with some Ruby Kata and test your skills will some Ruby Sparring.

How’s your Behaviour Driven Development? Healthy, sick or new-born? Drop in to the clinic at any point during the session and find out. Bring your code, tests, examples and scenarios in to the experts for a thorough check-up, diagnosis and prescription. We can give your code base a full going-over, from business value through unit tests, mocking, and code. Got problems? Not sure who to talk to? Just making sure everything’s all right? Let us help!

We are able to work with Java, C# and Ruby, and will consider other species if you can describe them to us.

Cucumber is a new acceptance testing (AT) tool that works with RSpec. Already popular in the Ruby community, this tutorial shows you how to use Cucumber to test drive Java applications, when you combine Cucumber and RSpec with JRuby.

We’ll also discuss Cucumber vs. FitNesse and using RSpec vs. JUnit. You’ll learn tips for writing good acceptance tests. Half of the time will be devoted to a hands-on exercises, where you will test drive a simple Java application using Cucumber.

Bring your laptop (or a pair partner with one), with the latest Cucumber, RSpec, and JRuby installed.

All projects benefit from high quality code but achieving the full benefits of agile approaches demands higher-than-usual software quality. A Continuous Integration build provides an ideal platform for applying automated tools to issues of code quality.

This tutorial looks at automated code quality tools that can be used to enforce or monitor code quality in Java and Ruby, and how they can be used to check quality manifested by:

• style enforcement
• lines per method
• methods per class
• code duplication
• npath and cyclomatic complexity
• test coverage