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Josh McAdams

Josh McAdams
Software Engineer, Google

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Josh McAdams is a programmer and engineering manager at DoubleClick/Performics. He leads the data warehousing team where he finds himself working in PL/SQL almost as much as favorite language, Perl. In his free time he contributes a little code to the Open Source community and hosts the Perlcast podcast.

Sessions

1:30pm Monday, 07/21/2008
Practical Test-driven Development
Programming, Tutorial
 Location: Portland 252
Josh McAdams (Google)
Average rating: **...
(2.87, 23 ratings)
Test-driven development is becoming an accepted development methodology in the programming world. It is not a new topic; however, it is still a developing art and a challenging practice that requires not only an expertise at programming, but initially also requires a discipline that takes even seasoned programmers to task. Read more.
10:45am Thursday, 07/24/2008
PLUTO: PL/SQL Unit Testing for Oracle
Databases
 Location: D133
Josh McAdams (Google)
Average rating: ****.
(4.20, 5 ratings)
More and more enterprise code is being created inside the database. Often this code slips by with few if any automated tests. It is as if there is some exception for database code that frees it from having to be properly wrapped in tests. The PL/SQL Unit Testing for Oracle (PLUTO) framework was built to provide a JUnit-like interface for PL/SQL programmers to properly test their code. Read more.
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