Resources from the January Meetup (TDD with Spock)

All in all I think we were around 17 people at the last meetup. Thanks all for coming, and big thanks to Data in Transit for hosting once again!

Our little improv pair programming with Spock was very fun, and we even learned a couple of new things ourselves on the way. Here is the code we ended up with during the meetup live coding:

https://github.com/tfnico/bonnagile-spock/tree/meetup

The Spock tests are located in here.

If you want to have a look at the first implementation Daniel and I came up with, you can find it here (master branch):

https://github.com/tfnico/bonnagile-spock

Some links that were mentioned:

• Spock homepage
• Try out Spock in the browser
• Spock docs
• Geb (Spock-powered web tests)
• Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests

A picture of the crowd:

And one of the speakers, @kaffeecoder and @tfnico:

Finding a new time to meet

After the January meetup in a week, we'll be looking for a new time of the month to meet regularly.

I've asked at Nerdhub.de, who are the closest thing to an authority on these things, and they say Tuesday is generally the day with the most free spots around the area.

So, here's the poll. It first lists possible Tuesdays, and then the remaining free Mondays:

http://doodle.com/2a7aptcrz7r94ac3

Please check all options where you *can* participate. Thanks!

Bonn Agile Meetup - Januar 2013: Modern TDD with Spock

This time we'll get together to talk about one of the most recurring topics in agile circles: testing!

Daniel and Thomas have been switching a lot of unit tests from standard JUnit to the feature rich testing tool called Spock. This meetup they'll share some of their experiences.

Currently Spock can only test Java and Groovy code, but the talk should be interesting to anyone familiar with any xUnit testing tool, as many Spock features have and probably will be ported to other languages/test-frameworks.

Where:

Data in Transit
Adolfstr. 34a
53111 Bonn

When:

Mon, 21 Jan 2013, 19:00

Sign up:

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Bonn Agile Meetup - November 2012: Learning

This is just a post to journal the last meetup we had in 2012. This was another bar meetup, with some fruitful discussions on how we acquire knowledge. I think we were six people in the end.

Bonn Agile Meetup - October 2012: Retrospectives

Just a quick post to inform that the October meetup in one week will be about Retrospectives.

Read more on Xing and sign up for the event there.

September Meetup: Continuous Delivery

Some pics from our September meetup:

The gang sharing their experiences on Continuous Delivery.

Our Continuous Delivery "Capability Maturity Model" :)

Thanks for the great discussions! Some links and resources can be found in the mailing list.

Bonn Agile Meetup - August 2012: CQRS and Event Sourcing

Last Monday we did our September meetup at one of Bonn University's buildings.

Many thanks to Lukas Pustina for setting us up with the new venue! Even though it is a bit removed from stuff like bars and shops, I think it could be a nice locale for any meetups where we need to have a lot of table-space for laptops, like code-retreats and dojos.

This time around, Daniel Westheide (twitter, homepage) joined in to talk about CQRS and Event Sourcing. It's an extremely interesting pattern that I think a lot of teams should consider, instead of overusing the classic CRUD/DAO model everywhere. 

Señor developer @kaffeecoder presenting away

Unfortunately, we didn't get too much audience this time, due to the awesome weather conditions, but hopefully Daniel will repeat his talk at some other venues (?). In any case, his slides and demo-code are available on Github:

• Code example (Scala)
• Slides (html in a zip)

Big thanks to Daniel for doing this presentation!