- "Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration."
- Integration tests strike a great balance on the trade-offs between confidence and speed/expense. This is why it's advisable to spend most (not all, mind you) of your effort there.
- biggest thing you can do to write more integration tests is to stop mocking so much stuff
- When you mock something you're removing all confidence in the integration between what you're testing and what's being mocked.
Workshops: October 10th, 2008Refereed Papers: November 3rd , 2008Tutorials: November 30th, 2008Panels: December 21st, 2008Posters:January 20th , 2009Developers track: February 2nd, 2009
Tim Berners-Lee confirmed as plenary speaker
Tim Berners-Lee is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, a Senior Researcher at MIT where he leads the Decentralized Information Group, and a Professor of Computer Science at University of Southampton. While working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, he invented the World Wide Web. It was there where he wrote the first Web client (a combination of browser and editor) and the first Web server. His original specifications of URLs, HTTP and HTML were widely adopted and refined as Web technology spread. In 2001 he became a fellow of the Royal Society, and more recently he received the 2007 Charles Stark Draper Prize, given by the National Academy of Engineering (US). His plenary talk will take place on Wednesday May 9 at WWW2007.