Brunei Geek Meet #4 (12th September 2014)

Thanks to Tru-Synergy for hosting Brunei Geek Meet #4 and thanks for all those who attended! It was a much better turn out than I expected and hope for more meetups to come!

Open Source Involvements: Experience in working on the OpenMRS CPM open source project

thewheat.github.io/presentation-open-source-involvements

• People Management is essential
  • there is a need to manage expectations
• High barriers of entry => great killer of enthusiasm
• Reproducible developer environments
  • Vagrant
• Documentation
  • Document both technical and non-technical aspects
  • Confluence, MediaWiki, Redmine
• Project Management: list of things to work on
  • Trello, Basecamp, Redmine
• Communicate
  • A way for people to communicate
  • Google Groups, Slack, Flowdock
• Code
  • Code needs to be easily accessible and contributable
  • GitHub, Bitbucket
• It takes time
  • commit 4 – 8 meetups to see where you can contribute
  • nothing is too small
• Places to contribute
  • OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education. openhatch.org
  • CodeTriage: receive a different open issue in your inbox every day. codetriage.com

Testing: TDD, BDD, WTH?

thewheat.github.io/presentation-testing-tdd-bdd-wth

• TDD: Test Driven Development (Red, Green, Refactor)
  1. Write test (watch test fail in test suite: Red)
  2. Write code (to make test pass: Green
  3. Refactor
• BDD: Behaviour Driven Development
  • Focuses on clear understanding of software behavior from stakeholders
  • Focuses on why code should be created: thinking “from the outside in”
  • 1. Given [initial context]
    2. when [event occurs]
    3. then [ensure some outcomes]
• Unit Tests
  • Testing core unit of works
  • Isolated: no interaction with other systems (e.g. databases, web services)
• Integration Tests
  • Test the integration between 2 different “units” / systems (e.g. your core system and the database / web service)
  • Database interaction: test database or in-memory databses (H2 / SQLite)
• Functional Tests
  • Tests features / functions of a system from user’s point of view (Quality Assurance process. Black box testing)
  • Automation tools (Selenium for webapps)