Perforce Software’s Kevin Sawicki to Speak at Upcoming Agile Development Conference
Alameda, Calif., June 8, 2010 – Perforce Software’s Kevin Sawicki, a lead developer on the Eclipse plug-in for the company’s version control system, will present “Refactoring: What You Need to Do It Right” at the 2010 Agile Development Practices West Conference. Developers will learn how to identify code that needs refactoring, how to preserve the correct code history during refactoring sessions, and how to ensure that appropriate unit tests cover the refactored code.
“As certain as evolving requirements lead to code changes, code changes lead to code degradation,” explained Kevin Sawicki, a senior software engineer at Perforce Software. “For this reason, code refactoring is critical to the long-term viability of all software products.”
Sawicki will demonstrate the Eclipse open-source frameworks and Java-based tools, including EMMA for code coverage analysis and JUnit for unit testing. These tools not only make code refactoring less painful, they also empower developers to constantly improve their code through relentless refactoring. Although the Java tools will be showcased, the approach applies equally to other programming languages such as C++, C#, Ruby, etc.
The workshop will be held on Thursday, June 10, at 4pm at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. For more information about the Agile Development Practices West Conference, please visit http://www.sqe.com/AgileDevPracticesWest.
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