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Personal Details

First Name: Gerard
Last Name: Meszaros
Employer: Independent Consultant
Years Experience in Agile: 10+
Short Bio: Gerard Meszaros is an independent consultant specializing is agile development processes. He is typically involved in the early parts of projects where the project scope and development process are first decided. This includes envisioning the finished product, designing the product for fitness-for-purpose and usability, deciding on an appropriate release strategy, and determining how the project will be managed and measured. Gerard built his first unit testing framework in 1996 and has been doing automated unit testing ever since. Along the way, he has become an expert in test automation patterns, refactoring of software and tests, and design for testability. Gerard has applied automated unit and acceptance testing on projects ranging from full-on eXtreme Programming to traditional waterfall development. Along the way he has cataloged numerous “bad smells” (symptoms of poorly written automated tests) and the “best practices” to overcome them. His book xUnit Test Patterns – Refactoring Test Code was published in the Addison Wesley Signature Series in May 2007 and recently won a Jolt Productivity Award in the Best Technical Book category.