Test-Driven Web Development on Spring and Hibernate

Adam Shimali and I will be piloting our TDD course at SPA2009 on the Sunday afternoon. Three two-hour samples of a full two-day course for free - and you get a 10% discount off the cost of the full course for yourself or a colleague.

The course is very hands-on. If you bring a laptop (Windows or MacOS) we can provide you with the complete Eclipse development environment installation on a CD or memory stick - you'll be good to go in about five minutes. It will help if you've done a bit of Java programming before, but even this is not essential as you'll be paired with someone experienced.

There's still time to book for SPA2009, but don't delay!

New Test-Driven Development training course

I have just completed work on a training course in test-driven development, intended for delivery over two days or self-study, which uses the development of a dating service as a worked example. Along the way, students will learn to use data access objects (DAO), Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) using Hibernate, Spring, jMock and Canoo WebTest. These tools will, I hope, provide them with good insights into the way that test-driven approaches alter the way in which software architectures grow, leading to more robust yet flexible designs.

My thanks to Adam Shimali, who developed the material initially. He and I aim to present a five-hour "taster" of this course on the Sunday afternoon at SPA2009.