The Testing Anti-Patterns series began as a conference presentation titled How to Fail With 100% Test Coverage, and I recently had the pleasure of presenting that talk at the Raleigh-Area Ruby Brigade (raleigh.rb). Matthew Bass was kind enough to record the audio from the event, and I’ve taken a stab at syncing that audio with the slides for a full-on multimedia extravaganza.^§

Download Quicktime video via Vimeo (registration required)

Download MP3 via iTunes

Download MP3 directly

Download slides

Wanna see this talk live? Check the schedule for an event near you.

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^§ Keynote’s Quicktime recording/exporting has a seemingly diabolical sense of humor. For comedic effect (or perhaps to make sure you’re paying attention), it likes to randomly shuffle the slides every once in a while. So in the video, you’ll notice that unfortunately the slides and the audio don’t always line up just right. If you find it too erratic, then it may be easier to listen to the audio and advance the slides manually. And if you see Tyler Durden make a cameo, well, it was probably just Keynote having a laugh.

Want to help convince your peers to take Grails for a spin? Are you looking to give a presentation to your dev team, your company, or perhaps a local user group? If you’d rather not have to assemble a presentation from scratch, I’ve got good news for you: you can now grab the raw Keynote files and demo code for my Grails presentations on GitHub. (If you don’t have Keynote, no worries: the PDFs are available as well). And it’s GitHub, so feel free to fork, customize, and spread the good word. Remember: As long as there’s an IDE somewhere with an open struts-config file, there’s a developer in need of help.

• Getting Started with Grails (Abstract) (PDF)
• Going Further with Grails (Abstract) (PDF)
• Bending GORM: 5-minute Techniques for Enterprise Integration (Abstract) (PDF)

If you’re not using Git yet, well, you should be. Seriously. But that’s a different post altogether. In the meantime though, you can download any of the presentations as a zip file or tarball. Just look for the “download” button on the GitHub page for each presentation.

Enjoy!