Spy VS mock: Test automation Death Match
The author of the Mockito framework will be hosting a deathmatch. The contenders are the notable celebrities of the test automation game.
Expect live TDD with leading mocking tools, feisty debates and no frag limit. We'll vivisect the spy and mock patterns and expose the gains and the tradeoffs. We'll evaluate the TDD flavor and the output test code neatness. Should mock or spy top the frag chart? I know only one thing. Since this session, you'll always have your mojito served shaken, not stirred.
About Szczepan Faber
Szczepan Faber is a software craftsman professionally involved in IT since early 2000. He worked for Thoughtworks UK helping companies to build enterprise software using XP methods. He was a team leader and an agile coach for Sabre Holdings where he relentlessly pushed teams for more agility, effective processes and state-of-art development environment. Szczepan specializes in an enterprise project automation, developer tools and agile engineering practices. His passion for agile testing and TDD led him to author or contribute to numerous open source tools in programming languages ranging from Groovy, Java, JavaScript to Flex or Python.
Szczepan is a founder of Mockito framework, a popular mocking library that augments Test Driven Development. Szczepan has been speaking at international conferences and delivered various trainings on agile programming techniques and project automation.
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