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Third-Year IT Students Get First Hand Experience on New Software

Third-Year IT Students Get First Hand Experience on New Software

Third-year DUT IT students received a practical demonstration on how to use the new software development practice called TDD (Test Driven Development) during a workshop which is currently (Thursday 14 February 2013) being held at the Ritson Road Campus.

The programme, which started this morning and will finish at 4pm, was introduced to the students by Brett Powell who is the Operations Director of Chilli Soft, a software development house that uses TDD. Test Driven Development is a new method of programming that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle; first the developer writes an (initially failing) automated test case that defines a preferred improvement or new function, then produces the minimum amount of code to pass that test, and finally improves the new code to acceptable standards.

Third-year IT Lecturer, Cassim Vanker believes that the new programme will be useful to the students. “Learning to use this development programme will allow them (the students) to pick up on a new skill that their potential employees can benefit from,” he said.

Chilli Soft is always eager to suggest new techniques and training programmes to the IT department at DUT and in turn, the lecturers implement them into the course. The software development house is always keen to welcome DUT graduates into its company. Powell is hoping to introduce this new software development practice to first-year students in the near future. “Having this knowledge will help the students in the working industry and also put them at an advantage over other applicants”, he said.

– Nikita Smith-Morgan

Pictured: Brett Powell, Operations Director of Chilli Soft- a software development house that uses Test Driven Development (TDD) demonstrates how to use TDD to DUT third-year students during a workshop which is currently (Thursday 14 February 2013) taking place on campus.

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