Bonn Agile Meetups in February/March

Summary:

• Bar meetup: Next week at Mojito, Monday 18th of February
• Next proper meetup, Tuesday 5th of March

Read on for the longer version:

Two Year Anniversary

The next Bonn Agile Meetup will be an informal bar meetup to celebrate our two-year anniversary! This is the last time we'll follow the old schedule where we meet the third Monday of the month. So we'll meet at Mojito on the 18th of February at 19:00. Yes, that's in one week.

Here is the Xing event for the February bar meetup.

New Meeting Schedule

After the anniversary meetup, we'll switch the regular meetup schedule. Our new plan is to meet on the first Tuesday of every Month. You can read the reasoning for this on the mailing list.

Next proper Bonn Agile Meetup

Most importantly: The next proper Bonn Agile Meetup will be 5th of March. The Meetup will probably be at Tarent - and the topic will be around Automated Web Testing with Geb.

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:

Xing Event

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.