My pal Paul Lockwood will be presenting at the next Atlanta .NET user group meeting.  If you’re in the area, come on out and get a taste of one of Atlanta’s top architect developers as he discusses the finer points of testing with .NET.

From the site:

Testing for .Net Developers; just do it!

Speaker: Paul Lockwood

Last year Paul gave our group a brief overview of NUnit. In his latest presentation Paul draws on his almost 17 years of real world IT experience to summarize developer-driven testing techniques. It is a fact that almost every project today is managed in a 'code-and-fix' manner; Paul will show how to gently introduce a little formality which will result in a more stable product and much less stressful regression testing. Technical demonstrations will use a small subset of Microsoft's brand new Team System, but every concept demonstrated can also be duplicated using Test Driven .Net which is only a free download away.

About the speaker:   In 1982 when Paul was age 11 he declared a wish to be a Systems Analyst, which is an old fashioned name for 'do-it-all IT consultant' - his hands have rarely left a qwerty keyboard since. Academically Paul holds Bsc and MEng degrees from UMIST University (England's MIT) which was followed up ten years later with another Masters degree in AI and Robotics. A PhD in Artificial Intelligence has been on the card twice, but the thought of four more years living on a student grant always make day jobs look much more attractive!

A real IT career began as a sponsored student in 1989 working on satellite communication equipment for the UK's Defense program. Since then he has worked for many big name IT consultancies including Andersen Consulting (Accenture), Deloitte and Touche, IBM and EDS.

Paul has a strong attention to detail and is very focused on a methodical approach to software development. Tools such as Microsoft's Team System and the use of Automated Testing are high on Paul's agenda; diligently performing up-front work leads to correct implementation the first time around.

Technology wise Paul works only on Microsoft .Net projects and he has used .Net exclusively since Beta 1 in March 2001. Historically Paul moved from Clipper5/ dBase IV to PowerBuilder to Java Application Servers before becoming enamored with .Net.

Paul maintains a technical web log http://www.dotnetworkaholic.com

Meeting Location and Directions

Microsoft Corporation
1125 Sanctuary Pkwy.
Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30004
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