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Effective Test Automation Presentation – Keep Austin Agile 2014

By ChrisEdwards | Published: March 25, 2014

This weekend I gave a presentation at the Keep Austin Agile conference called “Effective Test Automation”. Effective Test Automation from Chris Edwards on Vimeo. Keynote file Slides as PDF Abstract It’s easy to write tests, but it’s not so easy to maintain them over time. Tests should not be a drain on your productivity, they […]

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Video: Padawan to Jedi – A Developer Jump-Start (my presentation at Austin Code Camp 2011)

By ChrisEdwards | Published: September 15, 2011

Here is the video of my “Padawan to Jedi – A Developer Jump-Start” presentation I gave last week at the Austin Code Camp 2011. It touches on all the principles, patterns, practices, and such that I have learned in my many years being a developer. I designed the Padawan2Jedi talk to present knowledge in a […]

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Entities, Services & Resources—Three Categories of Objects

By ChrisEdwards | Published: June 27, 2010

After working with domains for several years I find that there are three major categories of objects I work with: Entities, Services, and Resources. There are clear distinctions between these categories in their purpose, content, dependencies and roles. Understanding these categories clarifies what dependencies I should allow, what purpose the objects serve, and how I […]

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