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Opposition rises in Congress to US copyright bills
The future of COBOL: Why it won't go away soonBy: Brian Bloom (10 Jan 2012)COBOL has a certain seniority in the IT world. Nobody can get it to retire—and nobody can find a replacement either. The question of when COBOL … Opposition rises in Congress …
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AMD spinning drives give way to WhipTail
The future of COBOL: Why it won't go away soonBy: Brian Bloom (10 Jan 2012)COBOL has a certain seniority in the IT world. Nobody can get it to retire—and nobody can find a replacement either. The question of when COBOL … AMD spinning drives give way …
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Last week I had the pleasure of being invited to talk at the Canberra Java Users Group about BDD using Easyb and JDave, using the talk that Lasse Koskela and I gave at Agile2009:

Behaviour-Driven Development, or BDD, is an excellent development strategy that can help bridge the traditional gap between requirements and implementation. This talk will go discuss the basic principles of Behaviour Driven Development, and look at how it builds on and differs from “traditional” Test-Driven Development. This session will demo two BDD tools: JDave, an open source framework that incorporates BDD concepts into JUnit, and easyb, a DSL-based behavior driven development framework for Java that uses Groovy to let you pretty much write tests that document themselves.

If you are interested in hearing the talk and/or downloading the slides, you can download both here.

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