[Chirb] Calendar, June Meeting Ideas.

[David Chelimsky]

> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Nate Kirby <natebkirby at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
> All,
>
> So it looks like people would appreciate (attend) a session on June  
> 2nd where some time was spent talking upon experiences discovered  
> using BDD/Selenium with Rails.  Ryan is willing to act as a question  
> answer,  and I might be able to present something useful on my own.
>
> How much time should I shoot for?
>
> I know chirb is into technical details, but the important things we  
> found are more about high level strategy than technical details  
> although I can add details for those uncomfortable with strategies.
>
> The outline would be:
>
> What is BDD?
> How does RSpec work (practical usage not internal)?
> How does Selenium work (with rails - once again practical usage not  
> internals)?
> What is story runner? (I know David covered this in Oct last year -  
> so this will be cursory)
>     Usage
> What did we find about BDD?
>     Duplication of effort
>     Mocks v DB
> What did we find about Story Runner?
>     Combine with Selenium?
>     Engineers response
>     Combinational complexity
> What did we find about Selenium?
>
> Then the final Unexpected result.
> *Ryan can ask me question (actually anyone can - but I reserve the  
> right to say "I don't know") as the session proceeds?
>
> How does this sound?

I'd show up for that one!

What date are we talking about? Can we avoid June 2 as some folks  
(like me) are returning from Portland and won't be back in time to  
make it?

Cheers,
David
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