Entrance is the half way along Gordon Street. Please take a look at the UCL campus map to help get your bearings.
This event will give you an introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD), a standard practice for development projects in industry and is also used in many open source projects. Having an appreciation of TDD and being able to talk about the values it brings will help you stand out from the crowd and impress prospective employers and it will also help you work with the people in your team when you get that job.
The tooling up series aims to give students and graduates understanding of the common software tools and practices used in Industry, helping you get a good start with your career.
Employers look for those candidates that know how to practically apply the learning gained from University without spending time and money training them on the tools they use. The more experience you have of the tools used in industry, then you are more likely to turn your degree into a career. The "tooling up" series gives you a kick start on that road and presents a wealth of experience from experts in the industry, conveying the essential information you need to help secure a job.
Schedule
6.00pm - Doors open
6.30pm - Brief intro to series & resources available
6.40pm - Overview of Test Driven development practices and tools
7.00pm - Workshop on writing unit tests - setting up Netbeans with JUnit (and Hamcrest) - writing your first test - test / code / refactor approach - working on simple exercise (in pairs, triples, quads) - supporting TDD development with version control (subversion)
8.30pm - Opportunity to network
Who should attend
- Current students with an interest in programming looking to find out about real world software projects
- Developers in their first role looking to add some knowledge to back up their career
- Academics looking to get a deeper understanding of Open Source tools and common practices
Requirements
To take part in the exercises, please bring your laptop with Netbeans installed (preferably version 6.8 or greater). If you do not have a laptop, you can still take part as we would also like you to pair up or work in a small group when doing the exercises.
Please note, from version 7 of netbeans, JUnit is not distributed by default due to a license concern from Oracle. However, you are prompted to install the JUnit plugin the first time you run Netbeans 7.
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