Dan Allen

Presentations

The Future of Java Enterprise Testing

This talk unveils the missing link in enterprise Java development: simple, portable integration tests. While development life is simple with unit tests and mocks, they only take you so far.

Arquillian, a container-oriented testing framework layered atop TestNG and JUnit, tears down this barrier. It brings your test to the runtime rather than requiring you to manage the runtime from your test. That means you can test real components that rely on real enterprise services in a real runtime.

Attend this talk to explore what the future holds for Java enterprise testing!

Continuous Enterprise Development in Java

Are you confident enough to push your application to production right now? Will it deploy? Integrate all the components? Keep the fail whale at bay? Confidence comes from tests. Real tests.

Discover how to use Arquillian to develop tests that execute inside a container, use BDD and ATDD for integration and acceptance tests that your stakeholders can grok and gain the confidence you need to continue developing, knowing your application will remain standing when faced with the real world.

Forge Ahead with Java Development

How many times have you wanted to start a new project in Java, but struggled with copying and pasting all the pieces together? Has the Maven archetype syntax left you with your eyes crossed? Everyone else is talking about Rails, Grails, and Roo, and you're left thinking, "I wish it were that easy for Java EE." Well, it is!

JBoss Forge can take you from 0 to Java web application in few swift keystrokes. Forge helps streamline application development, eases the pain of setting up enterprise testing and integration, and utilizes the full power of JBoss Tools for development, Arquillian for testing, and JBoss AS 7 for local deployment and OpenShift for cloud deployment. You can even switch seamlessly between Forge and the Eclipse-based JBoss Developer Studio. Together, let's build a real application, test it, extend it, and deploy it locally and to the cloud!

Drop the angled brackets. Discover the zen of writing (Ascii)Docs.

Writing documentation is already hard enough. Why do we make it harder by burying the content in an XML schema like DocBook or wrestling with finicky WSYWIG editors? Come learn how to find the zen of writing documentation using AsciiDoc and still be able to produce beautiful HTML 5, DocBook and PDF documents--or even a slide deck like the one in this presentation!

Writing documentation is already hard enough. Why do we make it harder by burying the content in an XML schema like DocBook or wrestling with finicky WSYWIG editors?

What if you could write documentation like you write an email? Forget about the layout and styling and just let the thoughts flow? That's the idea behind the lightweight markup languages such as AsciiDoc. AsciiDoc is designed for humans, yet can meet even the most advanced publishing requirements.

In AsciiDoc, the bulk of document is the content, embellished with mild and intuitive semantic markup. Need to insert code? Just reference the location of the source you want to include. Document getting too long? Break it up into parts. Need to merge changes from another author? Easy! It's just plain text.

Come learn how to find the zen of writing documentation using AsciiDoc and still be able to produce beautiful HTML 5, DocBook and PDF documents--or even a slide deck like the one in this presentation!

Bake better websites together on GitHub

Did you know GitHub can be a publishing platform? That a blog entry can be posted via a pull request?

Static is the new dynamic and git is the new way to collaborate. Learn how to use site-baking tools such as Awestruct and Jekyll to build and publish static websites and leverage the ever increasing capabilities of HTML5-based browsers to make your site more dynamic than ever before.

Static is the new dynamic. With the ever increasing capabilities of HTML5-based browsers, we can give the server a rest and put security problems behind us by publishing static HTML5 documents and shifting the dynamic behavior to the client. Not only does that let you blog out of static hosting sites like github pages, it also means you can put more processing power into the author tools.

In this session, you'll be introduced to Awestruct and Jekyll, Ruby-based tools for building and publishing static websites. You'll discover how you can leverage a wide range of lightweight markups languages and DSLs such as HAML, AsciiDoc, Markdown, SASS and CoffeeScript to keep your source terse and DRY. We'll use an extension pipeline to setup a blog, add comments to your site or add analytic tracking scripts to your pages, then build and publish the site to GitHub pages in a single command. Just because the pages are static doesn't mean they can't be dynamic too.

Continuous Enterprise Development in Java Workshop

How many times have you wanted to start a new project in Java EE, but struggled with copying and pasting all the pieces together? Forge can take you from 0 to Java EE, Spring, GWT and more in few swift keystrokes.

But, are you confident enough to push your application to production right now? Will it deploy? Integrate all the components? Keep the fail whale at bay? Confidence comes from tests. Real tests written with Arquillian.

In this workshop, you'll learn how to achieve continuous development using Forge to automate mundane tasks and Arquillian to write real tests. Together, let's build an application, test it, and deploy it both locally and to the cloud! Let's learn to use tools to make us more confident developers.

How many times have you wanted to start a new project, but struggled with copying and pasting all the pieces together? Has the Maven archetype syntax left you with your eyes crossed? Everyone else is talking about Rails, Grails, and Roo, and you're left thinking, "I wish it were that easy for Java." Well, it is!

Forge can take you from 0 to Java EE, Spring, GWT and more in few swift keystrokes. Forge helps streamline application development, eases the pain of setting up enterprise testing and integration, and utilizes the full power of JBoss AS 7 for development, testing, and deployment. You can even switch seamlessly between Forge and the Eclipse-based JBoss Developer Studio.

But, are you confident enough to push your application to production right now? Will it deploy? Integrate all the components? Keep the fail whale at bay? Confidence comes from tests. Real tests.

Discover how to use Arquillian to develop tests that execute inside a container, use BDD and ATDD for integration and acceptance tests that your stakeholders can grok and gain the confidence you need to continue developing, knowing your application will remain standing when faced with the real world.

In this workshop, you'll learn how to achieve continuous development using Forge to automate mundane tasks and Arquillian to write real tests. Together, let's build an application, test it, extend it, and deploy it both locally and to the cloud! Let's learn to use tools to make us more confident developers.

Get real with BDD: Know what you're developing, and why

Stakeholders are often criticized for not knowing what they want. If they don't know what they want, how do you know what to develop? It's a two way street and you both need to be on it.

In this session, we'll explore agile development tools that help achieve cleaner, clearer tests that show real results. We'll explore the concepts of BDD and ATDD through the use of tools from the Arquillian Universe such as Arquillian Drone, WebDriver (and Page Objects), Thucydides and Spock. Testing features and behaviors has never been so easy, and so real! If you care about quality of your software you definitely shouldn't miss this talk!

There's no better way to communicate about the software you're developing--no way more real--than by using tests, real tests. Tests tell the story of how the software is expected to behave and the purpose it serves. They also demonstrate the software does what is expected. If either half of the equation is broken, you have something tangible to fix and a basis for conversation.

In this session, we'll explore agile development tools that help create real tests that show real results and collect real feedback. We'll explore the concepts of BDD and ATDD through use of tools from the Arquillian Universe such as Arquillian Drone, Thucydides and Spock.

Testing features and behaviors has never been so clear and so real! You have a way to communicate with stakeholders about the software in which you're both investing.