Experience in object oriented agile development has shown great success with a technique known as test driven development (TDD). However, in SQL development it is not yet wide spread. During this talk we will present ways to enable software developers to use TDD to develop in databases. Specifically, techniques such as using fakes, mocks and stubs will be applied to meet the challenges of SQL unit testing.

After receiving his PhD in Computer Science, Sebastian joined Siemens Medical Solutions USA as a software developer. Sebastian has been an active part in the transition of Siemens to the Agile development process focusing primarily on the creation of frameworks for testing database code and performance testing and tuning. He has been sought out to speak at several technical conferences in the US and Germany about UnitTesting of database code and performance tuning of SQL Server.

Dennis has been working professionally in software development for over 10 years. His recent focus has been applying agile software techniques to database and object-oriented development. Over the next year, he will be investigating how agile practices apply to intelligent systems projects with emphasis on TDD in a natural language processing program. He has a bachelor's in Information Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology and master's in Software Engineering with a minor in BioInformatics from Penn State.