[ajug-announce] AJUG Meeting - July 19, 2011 @ 7:00pm - Test-Driving Android Applications with Robolectric

[Gunnar Hillert]

Hi everyone,

This is your friendly reminder that the monthly AJUG meeting is upon us!
Therefore, please join us for this month's meeting on *Tuesday, July 19*. Joe
Moore from Pivotal Labs will present 'Test-Driving Android Applications with
Robolectric'. Please see below for details or visit http://www.ajug.org.

Also, here are other upcoming AJUG meetings:

   - August - Enter the Gradle (Ken Sipe)
   - September - Still working on it :-)
   - October - ESB or app server: the right tool for the job (Ross Mason,
   MuleSoft)
   - November - What’s New in Tomcat 7.0 (Steve Heckler)

*This month's meeting details:*

*When:*  July 19, 2011 @ 7:00pm
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*Who:* Joe Moore
*What:* Test-Driving Android Applications with Robolectric

*Description:*

Running tests on an Android emulator or device is slow! Building, deploying,
and launching the app often takes a minute or more. Robolectric (
http://pivotal.github.com/robolectric/index.html) is a unit test framework
that de-fangs the Android SDK jar so you can test-drive the development of
your Android app inside the JVM on your workstation in seconds.
I will talk about why and how we built Robolectric and will live-TDD common
scenarios: adding buttons and events to an app, adding Activities, and
testing 3rd-party API integration (HTTP traffic).

*Our Speakers:*

Joe Moore began his software career thirteen years ago at a large insurance
company. He soon moved to Evant, a start-up which became a case study for
agile software development processes. After spending several years as a
consultant for companies including CNet and Compuware, Joe joined Pivotal
Labs in 2005 as one of the founding members of Pivotal's Ruby on
Rails-focused practice. Joe has led projects at a wide variety of clients,
from one-person start-ups to the world's largest social networks and search
companies. Joe works for Pivotal Labs remotely from Atlanta, where he
remote-pair programs full time with developers in San Francisco and New Your
City.

*Our Sponsors (Thank you!):*

   - Terracotta (http://www.terracotta.org/)
   - Automated Logic Corporation (
   http://www.automatedlogic.com/careers/software/)
   - Research In Motion (http://www.rim.com/)
   - The Intersect Group (http://www.theintersectgroup.com)
   - 4t Networks (http://www.4tvirtual.com)
   - Anteo Group (http://www.anteogroup.com)
   - Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) (https://www.theice.com/careers.jhtml)
   - JBoss (http://www.jboss.com)

*Our Location:

**Holiday Inn Select Atlanta Perimeter Dunwoody*
4386 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road
Atlanta, GA 30341
Phone: (770) 457-6363

Directions<http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=4386+Chamblee-Dunwoody+Road&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=4386+Chamblee+Dunwoody+Rd,+Atlanta,+DeKalb,+Georgia+30341&gl=us&ei=02FATNW9J4G88gb4jLmjDw&ved=0CBMQ8gEwAA&ll=33.920242,-84.313502&spn=0.007781,0.016512&t=h&z=17>

Cheers,

Gunnar

PS:

If you would like to present on Java/JVM related topics at our monthly AJUG
meetings and/or at the DevNexus 2012 conference, please contact us at info
at ajug dot org.
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