Well it's been a mega busy couple of months around Melbourne, capped off by the Silverlight Code Camp over the weekend of January 30/31.
If you missed the event then fear not - out next meeting will recap some of the happenings over the last couple of months in the Silverlight world before jumping in to some presentations from presenters at SLCC.
When: Thursday 4th March 2010
Time: is 5:30 PM for a 6:00 Start.
Place: Microsoft Theatre. Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank.
First up, Stephan Dekker will talk about Automated UI testing in Silverlight applications.
To lower the functional testing efforts (and costs!) involved in regression testing your SL application overnight or before a production release, automating the functional tests is the answer to prayers. The tools to write and run these tests are getting better and better, combined with lower browser quirks, this is the time to get going on automated UI testing.
Stephan will show how easy it is to get started with this using the free WebAII framework. This was the first framework to deliver SL integration and has the most features. No wonder that Telerik has decided to use WebAII as the foundation for its Automated UI testing tools. These tools will also be demoed in a couple of hello-world applications. To finish off the show, the testing framework of an actual Enterprise Business app at NAB WholeSale banking will be shown to prove its validity in real life scenarios.
About Stephan
Stephan graduated from University in 2000 and started his career working as a Scientific Programmer at the faculty of Psychology in Amsterdam. After 3 he decided to move to LogicaCMG, a highly regarded consultancy firm with over 6000 employees in the Netherlands alone. His great results made management decide to position him as a senior developer on a high profile (3½ M€) project having worked at Logica only 6 months. Together with the architects Stephan worked on most of the POCs and designs in that solution. During this period, Stephan started working in the CMMI organisation where he also was an SEPG member while still working as a solution architect for the remainder of the 3 years he worked at LogicaCMG.
He migrated to Australia 2 years ago and started his OZ working life at NAB where he joined, yet again, a high profile project. The Silverlight project was the first to be officially released after the go live license, has very high user satisfaction and met all the project outcomes successfully. He is currently busy introducing an improvement program at NAB Wholesale banking, while supporting projects in improving performance.
He is currently married (without children), 35 years old and has no plans (yet?) to move back the Netherlands.
Over The Fence
Second up, Jordan Knight and Alex Knight will talk about designer developer workflows using the Silverlight platform and Expression tools.
Traditionally work flows between designers and developers have been misunderstood and often lead to mis-communication and frustration amongst team members. Who does what and when? Where are responsibility boundaries drawn? Is it good enough for a designer to throw their comps over the fence? How much can a developer ask a designer to do?
Jordan Knight and Alex Knight draw the battle lines in this interesting debate and demonstrate working solutions to the above problems. See how tooling and convention can help introduce understanding and a smooth flow of work (and responsibility) between the warring camps.
This session will see these solutions implemented in Silverlight, but the lessons learned can be taken and applied to most tool sets and platforms.
About
Jordan is a Microsoft Silverlight MVP and has over 9 years experience working with web applications.
Alex is a designer with 5 years of commercial design experience. Alex runs the popular design site Silverzine (http://silverzine.com)
See you there!
