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Woody Zuill

Hunter Industries

An agile coach for the development team at Hunter Industries, Woody Zuill creates and supports software for internal company departments using a wide range of technologies, programming languages, and platforms. For the past thirteen years Woody has worked as an agile coach and developer in both large and small environments, training more than twenty teams and more than 100 developers in agile practices. Woody has been programming computers for twenty-nine years and believes that code must be simple, clean, testable, and maintainable so we can respond to change while quickly delivering working software. He has a passion for bringing unmaintainable code back into a manageable, healthy state.

Speaker Presentations
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 11:15am
Test Techniques
Better Unit Tests with ApprovalTests: An Open Source Library

When a unit test fails, we want clear, expressive, rich feedback so we can quickly understand the nature of the failure and get a good idea of how to fix it. Unit testing frameworks are fantastic at running tests and alerting us to any failure. Unfortunately, sometimes (or is that often?) the details of the failure are difficult to evaluate. Isn’t there some way to make the specifics jump off the screen so we don’t have to dig through all the details? ApprovalTests library does just that.