Gerard Meszaros

I am an agile software development consultant, trainer, author and semi-frequent conference speaker. I specialize in helping kick off projects. I conduct product envisioning workshops in which I work with the business people to help them put together a high-level picture of what they want built. I weave together a mix of User/Usage Centered Design and agile development practices that result in highly usable and satisfying products whether built for in-house usage or for sale. My most widely-known work is my book, "xUnit Test Patterns - Refactoring Test Code" which you can learn more about by clicking on the "Home" link at the top of this page. I have also contributed chapters to a number of other books including:

Object Technology Centers of Excellence
Pattern Languages of Program Design
Pattern Languages of Program Design 2

Over the years I have authored a number of papers and experience reports on patterns, automated unit testing and incorporating usability (UxD) practices into agile projects. At Agile 2007 and at the Americas SAP User Group conference in 2008 I presented an experience report on doing full-blown agile development in SAP's ABAP programming language. See http://AgileErpPaper.gerardmeszaros.com for the Agile 2007 paper, http:// for the Agile 2007 slides and http:// for the ASUG slides.

This year I'm involved in 3 sessions at Agile 2008:

xUnit Test Patterns and Smells - half-day tutorial
From Concept to Product Backlog - What happens before Iteration 0? - 90 minute tutorial
Cowboys & Indians - Impacts of Cultural Diversity on Agile Teams - Experience Report

I also presented two tutorials and a track session at StarEast 2008:

Test Automation Patterns - Best Practices and Common Pitfalls - half-day tutorial focussing on the test patterns and smells as they apply to functional test automation - http://StarEastTutorial.xunitpatterns.com
Improving Testing's Value through Customer Collaboration - half-day tutorial http://StarEastCollaborationTutorial.gerardmeszaros.com
For Success, Build Record & Playback into Your Application - 60 minute class http://BuiltinRecordAndPlayback.xunitpatterns.com

Some of my more recent papers include:

http://PatternWritingPatterns.gerardmeszaros.com presented at the Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) 1995 conference.
http://AgileRegressionTestPaper.gerardmeszaros.com
http://AgileUsabilityPaper.gerardmeszaros.com
http://FasterTestsPaper.gerardmeszaros.com
http://TestAutomationManifesto.gerardmeszaros.com - presented at XPAu 2004.
http://IntroToUserStoriesSlides.gerardmeszaros.com - presented as part of the Intro to Agile" track at Agile 2006.

I present a half or full day tutorial based on my book at various conferences and I can do the same at your place if business if you want to bring me in house. I can also do training on:

Agile Requirements (User Stories or Features) and Estimation
Conducting Project, Release, Milestone or Iteration Retrospectives
Capturing knowledge as Patterns and Pattern Languages

You can reach me by the e-mail address listed at the bottom of each page; don't forget to convert the anti-spam "underscore-at-underscore sequence" to "@" before you press "send".

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