Great Lakes Software Symposium - November 21 - 23, 2008 - No Fluff Just Stuff

Andrew Glover

Great Lakes Software Symposium

Chicago · November 21 - 23, 2008

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Andrew Glover

Engineering Manager, Netflix

Andrew is the Engineering Manager for Netflix's Delivery Engineering Team. He and his team are building the next generation Continuous Delivery platform that is facilitating Netflix's rapid global expansion. Before joining Netflix, he served as the CTO of App47, where he lead the development of a SaaS Mobile Application Management platform. Andrew is also the co-author of Addison Wesley's “Continuous Integration” and he actively blogs about software at thediscoblog.com.

Presentations

Easy BDD with Groovy

Behavior-driven development, or BDD, has attracted a lot of attention via RSpec in the Ruby community, but BDD's roots stem from JBehave, a Java based framework modeled off of the xUnit paradigm. But JBehave isn't the only framework available for Java developers– with the advent of Groovy, new options are available for embracing BDD in the spirit of RSpec's innovative behavior based DSL.

Groovin' builds Gant get any easier

There's no question that Ant is the de facto standard for building Java applications; however, even its creator has acknowledged an inherent limitation with Ant's expressiveness due to its reliance on XML. Recently, the popularity of Ruby and the Rails framework has brought to focus Ruby's de facto build platform: Rake. Rake's expressiveness comes from its reliance on Ruby itself to define a DSL for software assembly. While Rake's ultimate focus is Ruby, there are a number of interesting projects that utilize expressive DSLs for building Java including Gant, which uses Groovy as a DSL format and builds upon Ant's existing cornucopia of tasks.

Tactical Continuous Integration with Hudson

This session will walk attendees through a series of iterations on a fictional Java project where an automated build system is created that facilitates compilation, testing, inspection, and deployment. This build system is then plugged into the Hudson CI server and as features are coded using Agile techniques like developer testing, attendees will ultimately see firsthand how a Continuous Integration process reduces risk and improves software quality.

Less is Always More

The spectacular success and market penetration of the iPod, Agile software development principles, Twitter, and even Google are just a few examples of minimalism in action.