NWA DNUG - Jimmy Bogard (and me!)

Come join the NWA .NET User Group on October 13th at 5:30 PM. We will be taking nominations for the upcoming User Group officer election's and will have dinner catered from Sonny's Barbeque courtesy of GDH Consulting.

Main Presentation
Title: Testing the Last Mile with UI Testing

Description: The ASP.NET MVC framework greatly improved the web testability story in .NET, allowing for testing of the various components of MVC including controllers, filters, binders and more. But testing these components in isolation still doesn't prove that your site works as a whole. Action methods tested by themselves don't prove that the view shown has the correct information on it, or that links work as expected. For these types of tests, an end-to-end, browser-based test is needed. But just as it is difficult to test APIs not designed for testability, views not designed for testability can lead to brittle, difficult to understand tests. In this session, we'll look at the popular UI testing frameworks, and pros and cons of each. We'll also look at design for UI testability in our MVC application, and how we can greatly ease our testing burden with design techniques in our views. Finally, we'll look at UI test design as a whole, and examine how we can develop a complete UI testing strategy that eliminates the difficulty in testing the last mile.

Presenter: Jimmy Bogard is a principal consultant at Headspring Systems. He is an agile software developer with six years of professional development experience. He has delivered solutions from conception to production for many clients. The solutions delivered by Jimmy range from shrink-wrapped products to enterprise e-commerce applications for Fortune 100 customers. He is also a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and is an active member in the .NET community, leading open-source projects, giving technical presentations and facilitating technical book clubs. Currently, Jimmy is the lead developer on the NBehave project, a Behaviour-Driven Development framework for .NET, AutoMapper, a convention-based object-to-object mapper and the facilitator of the Austin Domain-Driven Design Book Club. Jimmy is a member of the ASPInsiders group, and received the "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) award for ASP.NET in 2009.

Lightning Presentation
Title: Mobile Web Development with ASP.NET MVC

Description: Learn how to use a custom view engine in ASP.NET MVC to make developing mobile web pages easier.

Presenter: Tim Tyrrell is a Chicago native relocated to Bentonville, AR, to build websites for Wal-Mart’s recycling and waste reduction initiatives. He is a co-founder of the Wal-Mart .NET User Group and an officer for the NW Arkansas .NET User Group.

Swag:

-Office 2007 Standard
-Wrox - C# 2008 Book
-Wrox - Professional ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Edition: In C# and VB
-Resharper License
-Nevron Chart for .NET Lite Edition
-Codesmith Tool Personal Pro 5.x License
-Syncfusion Essential Studio ASP.NET MVC Edtion
-Component One Studio for ASP.NET
-Visual SVN Personal License

When:
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Lightning Presentation
6:00 PM - 6:10 PM - Intermission – Presenter switch over
6:10 PM – 7:40 PM – Main Presentation
7:40 PM – 8:00 PM – Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where:
The Jones Center
922 East Emma Avenue
Springdale, AR 72764
Room 226 (Kansas City Room)