[vox] [fwd] ACCU: Wednesday, November 11 - Bill Venners, "Getting Higher With ScalaTest" [Mtn View]

[Bill Kendrick]

Tonight in Mtn View!

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:15:35 -0800
From: Ali Cehreli
Subject: ACCU: Wednesday, November 11 - Bill Venners, "Getting Higher With ScalaTest"

Reminder...
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When:      Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Topic:     Getting Higher With ScalaTest
Speaker:   Bill Venners
Time:      6:30pm doors open
          7:00pm meeting begins
Where:     Symantec
          VCAFE building
          350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road)
          Mountain View, CA 94043
Map:       <http://tinyurl.com/334rv5>
Directions: VCAFE is accessible from the semicircular courtyard
between Symantec buildings <http://tinyurl.com/2dccgc>
Cost:      Free
More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org>

Newer JVM languages such as JRuby, Groovy, and Scala let you work at a
higher level than Java. This talk will show you ScalaTest, a new
testing tool that will let you work at a higher level than JUnit and
TestNG. You'll learn about high-level features of Scala such as traits
and self-types, implicit conversions and parameters, functions and
closures, and internal DSLs, and see how ScalaTest exploits these
features to help you work more productively. You'll see how you can
reduce the lines of test code you write by half and more, how to mix
Scala into your existing JUnit or TestNG infrastructure, and how to
use Scala in various testing styles, including unit testing,
behavior-driven development, integration and acceptance testing, and
high-level property-based testing. You need not already know Scala to
attend this talk, as you will be taught just enough Scala to
understand the examples.

Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc., publisher of Artima
Developer (www.artima.com). He is author of the book, Inside the Java
Virtual Machine, a programmer-oriented survey of the Java platform's
architecture and internals. His popular columns in JavaWorld magazine
covered Java internals, object-oriented design, and Jini. Active in
the Jini Community since its inception, Bill led the Jini Community's
ServiceUI project, whose ServiceUI API became the de facto standard
way to associate user interfaces to Jini services.  Bill is also the
lead developer and designer of ScalaTest, an open source testing tool
for Scala and Java developers, and coauthor with Martin Odersky and
Lex Spoon of the book, Programming in Scala.

Meetings are open to the public and are free of charge.

---- Upcoming ACCU talks -----

Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Ralph Duncan
"packetC for Network Applications"

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The ACCU meets monthly. Meetings are always open to the public and are
free of charge. To suggest topics and speakers please email Walter
Vannini via walterv at gbbservices.com

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