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Title:Walking Skeleton
Proposer: Thomas Sundberg
Type: Presentation
Duration: 90 mins
Description:
A Walking Skeleton has been described by Alistair Cockburn as '…a
tiny implementation of the system that performs a small end-to-end
function. It need not use the final architecture, but it should link
together the main architectural components. The architecture and the
functionality can then evolve in parallel.' It is also the theme of
the popular book 'Growing Object Orientated Software Guided by Tests'
by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce.
In this session Thomas will start with a clean development environment
and develop a walking skeleton for an application. The skeleton will
evolve and parts will be added as we gather more and more knowledge
about the system we are building.
This will demonstrate how Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
and Test Driven Development (TDD) can be used to drive the development
of a Walking Skeleton, keep it running, and grow it incrementally.