BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anguilla X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anguilla BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3783271:Event:1502 DTSTAMP:20260405T222438Z SUMMARY:Integration Tests Are A Scam- (J B Rainsberger)From Agile 2009 Conference DESCRIPTION:From - http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/node/708\nLevel: Practicing\nIntegration tests are a scam, a self-replicating virus th at takes over your project and burdens you with long-running, fragile, hard-to-understand test suites. You’re probably writing 2-5% of the integration tests you need to test thoroughly. You’re probably dupl icating unit tests all over the place. Your integration tests probably duplicate each other all over the place. When an integration test fai ls, who knows what’s broken? When you refactor, you have to fix doze ns of integration tests. Stop it. Learn the two-pronged attack that so lves the problem: collaboration tests and contract tests.\n\nProcess/M echanics\nWe start with 45 minutes of describing the problems, the tec hniques and answering some initial questions and doubt. We continue wi th a kata: I demonstrate the technique by replacing integration tests with collaboration and contract tests and showing the improvement. 10 minutes. Next, attendees try the technique, following the kata as clos ely as they can. First, they try on their own, for 30 minutes. Next, s omeone volunteers to try the technique on stage, following the kata, b ut with me to critique and correct them. This needs 30 minutes. After that, the groups decides: Q&A, another demonstration, another iteratio n of trying the kata, whatever works for them.\n\nLearning outcomes\n\ nunderstand why integration/end-to-end tests don’t find real problem s\nunderstand why integration/end-to-end tests\ndon’t return enough to justify their investment\nlearn what collaboration tests and contra ct tests are\nlearn how to test 99% of your system entirely in memory with a suite that runs in minutes, not hours or days\nlearn how focusi ng on collaboration tests and contract tests positively impacts your d esign\n\n\nFor more information visit https://agilephilly.ning.com/eve nts/integration-tests-are-a-scam-j DTSTART;TZID=America/Anguilla:20091029T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anguilla:20091029T200000 CATEGORIES:meeting LOCATION:Siemens Medical Solutions - Corp 3, Aud B WEBSITE:http://www.agilephilly.com/page/directions-to-siemens URL:http://www.agilephilly.com/page/directions-to-siemens CONTACT: ORGANIZER:AgilePhillyCoordinators ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="David A. 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